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Now Potiphar was the captain of the Pharoah's palace guard in the book of Genesis. When Joseph, the son of Jacob, was betrayed by his brothers, stashed in a cistern and sold to a caravan, he ended up being purchased by Potiphar. Joseph, who was young, handsome and, best of all, favored by God, quickly rose in Potiphar's esteem until he was made overseer of the guardsman's house.
Joseph soon caught the eye of Potiphar's wife, whose name among the Muslims is said to have been Zulaika, and she wanted to get freaky with Joseph, but he refused. Joseph did not want to betray the trust his master Potiphar had placed in him, so every day Zulaika would proposition him, and everyday he would refuse. One day she became enraged at his refusal and tore a bit of cloth from his cloak as he escaped her.
Scorned and affronted by his rejection, a wicked idea came to her, and using the bit of torn cloth as circumstantial evidence, Zulaika falsely accused Joseph of rape. Potiphar felt deeply betrayed and had Joseph imprisoned. While Joseph's ultimate end was not unhappy, Zulaika is never made to answer for her crime until, over 2,000 years later, Dante arrived to condemn her to the 8th circle of hell, and smoldering flesh.
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He said this because virtue must be a protection in and of itself. Otherwise, if you are to be hung for a lamb as a sheep, you might as well reap the benefits of the crime. Overly repressive regimes and laws breed crime, and a willful population that makes membership in criminal enterprise a kind of right of passage. The 'war on drugs', which unfairly targets and punishes black men in the ghetto, has helped give rise to Gangsta Culture, where selling drugs, pimping women, and getting away with murder are seen as heroic and laudable achievements.
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The Lawyers
Lisa Bloom is my kind of vile mercenary. I love it when prominent feminists prove that women can be as equally sleazy as men. I feel like it's a triumph for women's liberty; that we can finally free them from the presumption of decency.
It was recently revealed that Bloom, a California lawyer in good standing at the bar, offered to sell accusers' stories to tabloids and TV outlets for a 1/3 commission. She offered women six-figure payments to come forward with allegations against then 2016 presidential nominee Donald Trump, and offered to pay off the mortgage of another Trump accuser.
Lisa Bloom calls her defense of sexual assault accusers "pro-bono" but claims that part of her standard pro-bono contract is a commission for all media pay-offs, which calls into further question any published accusations in those outlets.
One woman, Jill Harth, who alleged in 1997 that Donald Trump had harassed her but quickly retracted the claim when people didn't believe her, was convinced by Bloom to re-accuse Trump in 2016 in return for having her mortgage (about $30,000) paid off.
Harth claims that "Having to retell my experiences of Donald Trump's harassment is the hardest thing I've ever had to do."
Apparently she is doing it a third time in the form of a memoir, which must make her some kind of masochist.
In a revealing exchange between Bloom and an anonymous accuser, who ultimately spoke to The Hill, Bloom made it clear that there was a deadline to bringing the accusation to the public, to which the anonymous accuser responded:
"What does time have to do with this? Time to bury Trump??? You want my story to bury Trump, for what? Personal gain?..."While the Hill article tries its best to make Bloom look like a political operative, in reality she's a true believer. This is what a feminist looks like.
Gasp! No true feminist would do that! Oh, you precious, naive little lamb. Lisa Bloom is about two things: her career and her power, her power to hurt men. What could be more feminist than that?
Lisa Bloom didn't fall far from the tree. Her mother is Gloria Allred, a kind of rape and sexual harassment ambulance chaser who has made a career out of persecuting famous and wealthy men and extracting money from them. She was instrumental in suing Aaron Spelling, who terminated his contract with Hunter Tylo, the Melrose Place actress, when she became pregnant. The jury awarded Tylo $4.8 million, and established the legal precedent that owners of a TV show had to continue the employment of actresses regardless of pregnancy.
People might not recall the recent Cosby false rape accusations, but it was Gloria Allred who represented 28 of the women who accused him. The first trial was a mistrial; the next one is scheduled to take place in April of 2018. It has mostly descended into civil suits and counter-suits.
The Girls
At the end of the day, generalizations are for policy and specifics for courtrooms. As human beings we are always searching for heuristics to help us decide in non-essential situations, and details that will help to guide us if we make a mistake and have to back up.
When looking at the current #MeToo situation, it's important for us to get a broad overview of the kinds of women who might accept money to falsely accuse someone of sexual harassment.
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Bezan attempted to apologize the next day, but Romanado refused to accept it. Instead, she filed a complaint and refused mediation. Bezan was made to apologize both in private and in public. Romanado described the situation thusly:
"In May, the member publicly made inappropriate, humiliating and unwanted comments to me that were sexual in nature. These comments have caused me great stress and negatively affected my work. People are afraid to live what I have lived through."This is an elected official, a parliamentary secretary to Canada's Veterans' Affairs Minister, and the Associate Minister of National Defence. It does make one wonder how many terrorists got by her while she was sobbing over a sophomoric comment? What can be said of the strength of such women if words, said in jest, could emotionally cripple them for months? Even if they weren't said in jest, it would be equally ridiculous. Perhaps, as a minister of National Defence, she has to be protected from what ISIS Imams might be saying about her?
In mid-November this year, an LA radio personality, Leeann Tweeden (as if she wasn't taking up enough vowels as it is), came forward with allegations and photographic evidence of "sexual harassment" from then-comedian Al Franken. While Tweeden was on a USO comedy tour with Franken, entertaining the men and women who fight and die (however unnecessarily) for our country, she was "victimized" by the future Senator when one of their companions snapped a photo of Franken grabbing her flak jacket suggestively while she slept.
Truly, a nightmare. The incident, as she recounted it, would bring her to tears. To the best of my knowledge, she was in fact wearing heels, so I guess Obama was right. Cause she can whinge way better than me.
The Atlantic would go on to publish an article by another accuser of Franken, Tina Dupuy (another vowel miscreant), who recounted a harrowing run-in with the handsy harasser. While attending a Media Matters party during Obama's first inauguration, she spotted Franken and approached him for a photo:
"We posed for the shot. He immediately put his hand on my waist, grabbing a handful of flesh. I froze. Then he squeezed. At least twice."
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"It shrunk me. It's like I was no longer a person, only ornamental. It said, 'You don't matter - and I do.' He wanted to cop a feel and demonstrated he didn't need my permission."According to Dupuy she had been married for two years at the time; "I don't let my husband touch me like that in public because I believe it diminishes me as a professional woman." I'm pretty sure you do that well enough on your own, Ms. Dupuy. I rarely bother to have respect for people I don't even know, but you're one of the few who would be starting at a deficit.
These are the women who feel deeply hurt, even though nothing out of the ordinary has happened to them. The fact that they compel us to pretend they are victims of anything more than a joke or a straying hand is an insult to every ounce of integrity we have.
When Andrea Dworkin wrote in Our Blood that, "Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman," she was not merely positing an intellectual theory, but was revealing the very nature of her mind.
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"It won't, not unless men get their act together, have their power taken from them and behave themselves. I mean, I would actually put them all in some kind of camp where they can all drive around in quad bikes, or bicycles, or white vans... give them no porn, they wouldn't be able to fight - we would have wardens, of course! Women who want to see their sons or male loved ones would be able to go and visit, or take them out like a library book, and then bring them back."She was not really putting forward a serious theory; she was, in a way, joking, but even said in jest it reveals the nature of her mind, as much as Bezan's joke revealed the nature of his. As an aside, given Bezan's stance on the repatriation of Crimea and the situation in Ukraine, I'm glad this is the only insight into his inner working that we had to suffer.
Bindel continued:
"And I am sick of hearing from individual women that their men are all right. Those men have been shored up by the advantages of patriarchy and they are complacent, they are not stopping other men from being shit.No sane person could really take such women seriously. Could they?
I would love to see a women's liberation that results in women turning away from men and saying: "when you come back as human beings, then we might look again."
The Money
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What truly happened and how, is not known - nor does it matter. The allegations, while juvenile if true, certainly do not merit $220,000 in compensation. That doesn't even take into account the expense of lawyers' fees for investigation. Ms. Packer's frivolous lawsuit probably cost the taxpayer in excess of half a million dollars. Another woman was paid $84,000 for a complaint against Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold, though no details were revealed. There better be some illegitimate children, bodily harm, or coercion, or I'll have a conniption.
One of the largest sexual harassment settlements in history was granted to Ani Chopourian, who was awarded $168 million dollars (later reduced to $84 million) for complaining that one of her fellow surgeons at Catholic Healthcare West would greet her in the morning with the phrase "I'm Horny." Those two words will go down in history as the most expensive I've ever heard.
Linda Gilbert made the mistake of entering the toxic masculine space of a Chrysler Assembly Plant. According to Gilbert, the low-class buffoons on the line would make sexually harassing comments to her, like suggesting they would like to look up her skirt. One vile predator even went so far as to put a lewd cartoon in her toolbox! Gilbert sued and was awarded $21 million. And you wonder why they started producing cars overseas. Where'd mah jobz go?
Just researching this article has convinced me I will never run a business or hire anyone, ever.
While the above cases were extreme, and some were later reduced, the basic truth is that damage award guidelines put the general amount a woman can make if she brings a convincing case to court in the range of about $18,000 to $100,000 - much more if it's against a government official, celebrity or large corporation.
The business of sexual harassment claims is not limited to the United States; there are similar cases of exorbitant awards throughout the Western world.
Conclusion
While there may be legitimate claims of sexual harassment, from my research they are few and far between. Only about 1 in 10 of the cases I looked into seemed remotely worth considering in a rational society. It is clear that motivated ideologues like Bloom and Allred meet at the intersection of the greedy and the mentally unstable to exploit society's histrionic obsession with protecting women from the vicissitudes of life while at the same time pretending they are "just as strong as any man."
The current #MeToo moral panic is a veritable gold rush for lawyers and news outlets. Places like Dr. Phil and Inside Edition pay handsomely for anything appearing remotely 'credible'. The problem with the term 'credible' is that it doesn't necessarily mean 'criminal'.
With #MeToo, men are being asked to give up their basic right to due process, and innocent until proven guilty, and to throw themselves on the mercy of women like Tina Dupuy, Julie Bindel, Lisa Bloom or Gloria Allred. It's your freedom guys.
Reader Comments
You make the point women have been trying to make for eons. You are a sick person to equate rape with the vicissitudes of life.
www.zerohedge.com/new/2017-12-18/womens-march-organizer-linda-sarsour-accused-enabling-sexual-assault-female-employee
Which, if that isn't a supremacist statement, I don't know what is.
Let's try some variations:
"White people can do anything black people can do, better, regardless of disadvantage." - sound so racist.
"Germans can do anything Jews can do, but better, even with one armed tied down." - Ouch, sounds like NAZIs. OMG, that's why they call them Feminazis!
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The days when it was just Bush and the Neocons is over. Though Neocons are still shitlib entryists, you have to open your eyes to the culture war that has been raging for 60 years (or more actually).
If the NeoCons and the Swamp Establishment are like Italy in WWII, then Cultural Marxism (Feminism, Neo-Liberalism, Post Modernism) is like Germany and the technocrats in Silicon Valley are like the Japanese.
One war, many fronts. Intersectional Feminism is like the special forces/SS of the Feminazi Regime.
As a society We reap what we sow - whether through action or through inaction.
There are 2 kinds of people that make all this happen: Those who lead, and those who are misled.
Not one war on many fronts, Atreides... its One war on ALL fronts!!
I'll know when to pick up my sword...
The increasing popularity of AI and robots to 'replace' women for companionship and 'oompa loompa'. All it takes is for an aspiring entrepreneur out there to provide the right product, market it well and there'll be millions if not billions of users.
The divide of human beings continue.
Also I feel a lot of this has to do with a massive ego problem some of these feminists must have. They think that simply for the fact they are a woman, they are above and superior to anything else. It's the equivalent of a supremacist. Feminist supremacy I will call it from now on. Not to be confused with eternal victimhood that plagues minorities. Feminists suffer from a superiority complex imo.
I had an interesting experience during my works xmas do
I should me hitting up that #metoo thing but well... I won't. She's a bit eccentric, quite unfiltered and was drunk. Plus she apologised Monday lol.
Was it sexual harassment? Lol I don't think so... it was more drunken harassment.
But I thought omg, if it was a guy who did that to a girl... swift crucifixion would follow.
Double standards but hey ho.... men are inferior and no due process is required. Women as per feminists are sacred creatures and to look at one the wrong way can be and is probably the highest sin.
This is not a new problem either.. I forget the name of the kid (Emmett Till?) but I saw a story awhile back of a 14 year old black kid who got lynched and horrendously murdered for looking and whistling to a white woman back in the days of jim crow.
They came for him then... how ironic now they are coming for all men in general
I'm sure there must be intersection of so many different things here.
I think it's originally based on class though I don't have proof nor have I read on it. I have a theory though based on the knowledge and experiences I have acquired thus far which of course could be wrong though hopefully not entirely.
During colonial days, I read somewhere here on sott that men were given free reign with those colonised i.e. a white man could do as he pleased with a colonised non-white woman. However, there were heavy restrictions on women... namely white women. They were the sole property of white men. Part of this I believe is based on the dominant male population not wanting competition and that it would be an affront to their superiority complex and I reckon the other part is to do with class - non white men being below the class system itself. I'm sure all these must have seeped into the feminine psyche. This being put in a pedestal malarkey - whether it be for their supposed protection or whatever.
In addition, I think there were also restrictions in Europe as well between the plebs and upper classes. I am sure a working class man couldn't just go up and chat or even flirt with an upper class lady. So there's that layer.
Take away the class system which in my opinion infused superiority to upper class women against lower class men, insert racial hierarchy which then inserted to the mass feminine mind the idea of superiority of 'white' women against the rest non-white population the world over... then insert modern feminism which says that ALL women are higher, including the modern spiritual movement of the divine mother and feminine spirit and we have layer upon layer of basically the same message getting reinforced... Women are in a different class to men. We are not the same. They are both superior but highly fragile at the same time.
I think there's quite a lot of stuff intersecting basically.
But feminism as an ideology began as an offshoot of French socialism. Socialism would later be perverted more fully by Marx, and then starting in the 20th century you'd see a lot of Marxist Feminists (Marx was a male feminist), around the 1960s with Marcuse and the Frankfurt school, Marxism was mixed liberally into feminism and feminism became a largely anti-capitalist kind of movement.
This was derailed by Glora Steinem, who took the anti-capitalism out by inserting a more pristine anti-male tendency that mirrored Marxist concepts.
Finally, in the 1980s, with intersectional feminism, and especially in 1989, with the publishing of "Towards a feminist theory of state" by Catherine McKinnon, the class based identity politics of Marxism was transformed by defining women-as-a-class and men-as-a-class. In this sense, Marxism wasn't just mixed in, but baked in from the ground up, and guess which "class" was the victim?
McKinnon Writes: Feminism is not entirely wrong about society, it is very unequal, but it turns the inequality on its head, and completely omits the incredible amount of female privilege in every society. Instead it focuses on the Kabuki theatre of male "power", which is really a pandering charade to convince men to work more, harder, and accept less in return for it.
Male power is not the feminist conception of power, male power is male responsibility. It is also male disposibility. It's like throwing a party for a human sacrifice, which many cultures have actually done. The facts of the case are that the prisons of history have been filled with men, not women, that the slaves of history worked to death in all the fields from all times, were men, not women. The slaves on the galleys, were men, not women. The eviscerated corpses on the battle fields were men, not women. No women of any number have ever died in a mine collapse, or drowned on a Titanic.
Women may have been slaves at times, but the stories of those who married out of slavery are so numerous they are insulting. To gain your freedom as a female slave in Rome it was sufficient to be comely, as a male you had to be Terence.
The problem with McKinnon and other's like her, was that her work wouldn't last. She herself was ultimately consumed by the rise of Intersectional Feminists, far from thinking she went too far in hamfistedly smearing the dung of Marxism across the panties of female supremacy, the Intersectional Feminists felt she hadn't gone far enough. Hence the modern identity politics of the snowflakes was born. Colonial people could in some cases do as they pleases with non-whites. Both men and women could, and did take advantage, there is no denying that.
The lurid details that activists latch onto are more often than not exaggerated, taken out of context, or fabricated. Leftist agitators and bleeding heart liberals existed even then, and they were the ones often producing scandalous accounts with lots of gorey embellishments. Among the puritans there were heavy restrictions on everyone. This is often left out of accounts of past times, they fail to ennumerate the restrictions and responsibilities of men, simply pointing out that women had to wear dresses, or weren't allowed to vote etc. The name of the feminist who started this "property" nonsense is given, I think, by Baxter. According to him, it began as a bit of suffragette propaganda (akin to the rule of thumb nonsense) and was based on the most egregiously uneducated reading of common law.
Women were never, ever, considered as property, not in the sense of a chair or a house or even a slave - which is what the feminists try to imply. That is utter rubbish. That is not to say the occasional bad choice of legalese wasn't used, but if your chair decides it doesn't like you and goes back to live with it's carver, the law doesn't force you to pay its debts, or alimony.
The language of "giving" a woman to a man, or that he "possesses" her is just more of the same Kabuki Theater that is patriarchy. All form and no substance. That is often the problem. Upper class feminists usually generalize their experience and their codes of conduct (as well as legal obligations) that were negotiated by them to acquire a comfortable life as a Duke's wife, or the kept woman of a wealthy person, out to the experience of the general population.
For most of history, the law courts were where wealthy people went to get poor people hung. You said it bro.
Interesting it kinda sounds like "Mars-ism'" - ie of Mars : the Roman God of War!
Karl Marx is said to have died 15 mins before 3.00pm on 14th March 1883 as announced at his funeral at Highgate (interesting name). According to Time Zone Converter, in Tokyo, Japan it would have been 3 mins past mid-night 15th March 1883 (Gregorian): The 'Ides of March' - in the Land of the Rising Sun (Japan coming to represent the Eastern opponent of Communism emerging in China). March (3rd Month) named after Mars of course - moves into Aries = Mars. Aries is 1st House in Zodiac, transitioning from Pisces = Aphrodite/Venus and 12th (last) House in Zodiac also in March. Mars vs Venus = Battle of Sexes.
I always felt the red sun on the Japanese flag was more a symbol of the Red Planet though. Red = Communism and blood too.
Interesting Julius Caesar was murdered on the Ides of March.
*P.s., re 'players,' such as we:
All the world's a stage, ...
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Did you know "caesarean" birth is likely connected to J.C. death (stabbed/cut-up)? I reckon is somehow connected to the dying/rising 'birth' the other fabled 'J.C.' of whence only 5 days left before its celebrated after the winter solstice 3 days-end our dying sun (son) is reborn as the days grow longer once again. Caesar death = Christian birth.
Independence movement against colonialism - the oppressed faced open violence before they could win anything e.g. wars were fought in places like Africa before the countries could 'claim' independence from European powers... basically people died.
Civil rights movements - battles were fought on the streets of America before african americans could 'claim' equal rights.
Workers movement - plagued with violence as well before any 'rights' could be 'claimed'.
Suffragette and feminist movement - where were the battles at? I don't recall seeing any tanks rolling down the streets to obliterate people or riot police hounding women or state sanctioned assassination attempts nor prominent feminists spending decade after decade in jail. Basically, I read there wasn't a struggle. Whatever they wanted, it was pretty much given to them. Oh you want to vote? Sure thing, here you go. Want to work like a man? Please feel free, here you go etc etc. That basically a whole bunch of this feminist struggle stories are pure myth. Fake. They were not oppressed in any true sense of the word. Why would they be? These women had husbands who were the judges, policemen and power brokers of society. It's not like these men would conspire to keep their wives and daughters in chains... in fact, they'd do the opposite. Basically, I have ZERO respect for feminists. I consider it a complete pseudo movement. Show me your MLK, Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara, Gandhi etc then respect will be earned. None of these CIA sanctioned pseudo leaders they supposedly have.
What they want is for us all to live in a quantum universe basically. A universe where contradictions constitute reality. This is the feminists true drive. Quantum evolution.
Sweden loses its collective mind: Proposed law will make any sex without "explicit" consent rape
Sweden's adults could be convicted of rape unless they receive a verbal or non-verbal sign of consent from their partner at each step of their sexual encounter, according to a new law set to come..."As with other 'Yes means Yes' initiatives, at any trial it will now fall on those accused of rape to prove that their actions were welcomed by their partner, rather than on the accuser to show that they did not consent - which Lofven said will "put the victims' interests first." "
Madness!
You have to see that most of these laws are drafted, or intellectually inspired, by sapphic misandrists. Personally, I'm glad they're going so far, all they need is a bit more rope and a few more shovels full of dirt.
Good, balanced widespread look at this whole
'Me So Horny"(oops, pardon flashback to Full Metal Jacket. . . ) this whole "MeToo" BS.Most folks don't realize the critical importance of the concepts of 'innocent until proven guilty,' or 'beyond a reasonable doubt' and they likewise believe that -as the TV and MSM tell them - that most violent crooks get off on 'technicalities', that most drug sellers are psychopathic killers, etc. It's that mindset that has allowed the typical AmericKant to be 'ok' with getting rid of 'habeas corpus' or 'posse commitatus' because:
- They didn't understand what they meant (habeas first showed up under King John's Magna Charta, but only for the 'elite' and not for the feudal peasants, but we eventually got it after hundreds and hundreds of years, and our dumbed down Amerikants have destroyed both in less than a generation.
- Most AmeriKants have never been falsely accused - but with the ongoing destruction of laws designed to protect the innocent - they will soon enough and sooner than expected realize something akin to "When they came for the illegal drug users. . . I didn't complain...etc."
As you so well point out, these are some of the reasons for the need of the presumption of innocence, and our burden of proof in criminal cases.
(Not like they matter, though. AmeriKants routinely agree that some pot smoker is a criminal and convict, convict, convict despite entrapment by police,. etc.)
Just a wandering rant about your well organized, expansive yet coherent and cohesive thoughts. The number and quality of (most of) the commenters proves that point, too.
Again, good job.
R.C.
Ahh, my favorite speech, evar. [Link]
So, if you grabasstic pukes don't give me a hell yeah, I'll flay your minds! Sound off like you love the corps!
Re: #MeToo Movement Needs Sense of Humor
Atreides: Your guffaw at my above humor, got me to thinking - (always a dangerous thing) - and I believe that what the seriously more than overly-self righteous* '#MeToo' movement, needs is a little injection/insertion/(insert phallic 'extension' joke of your choice here) of some unasked-for humor.
Mark Twain said - and proved - some witty** points about how there's nothing better than humor to, for one thing, bring the overstuffed self important sorts/movements down to reality. R.C.
*is that an oxymoron? or are just most of the MeToo followers?
** 'Wit' being something that escapes me in the mornings, so I have none handy - Mark Twain quotes, that is - though my wits are likewise even lower than their usuall lower than normal supply too.,
*** If we wish, we could ascribe some specious Freudian - that is redundant - reasoning indicating we only mean to enjoy the moment with our fellow 'YouTooers',
P.s., My Second paragraph's 'sound'/phraseology causes me to wonder: "Hey, BayBars! where are you?"
RC
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University of Michigan holds training session to help white employees deal with their 'whiteness'
University of Michigan training session used 'Privileged Identity Exploration Model' A two-day professional development conference held recently at the University of Michigan included a training...R.C.