Wednesday Morning Grog Bowl

Good morning, LGMer’s. Here are several things that have nothing to do with each other for you to look at.

• Anita Sarkeesian Kickstartered a video project continuing her work on women and tropes in video games. Gamers everywhere responded with  measured skepticism by threatening her with rape and death. She was even temporarily hounded from her home. But she was a feminist on the internet–she should have known what she was getting into. Christina Hoff Sommers, vile faux-feminist, approves.

• I always expected other liberal-minded scholars to join me in exposing 3rd wave feminist lunacy.Never happened.But now the gamers r here.

  — Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) August 31, 2014

   

• Yes, that’s right. Christina Hoff Sommers is backing doxxers and men who think making rape and death threats is a reasonable response to a video project exploring sexist tropes. Oddly, this should surprise no one, as Christina Hoff Sommers is an old school Chill Girl. Only it’s an especially unseemly brand of Chillgirlism at work here  because Christina Hoff Sommers is ancient and looking for head-pats from slobbering cretins half her age. OH, CHRISTINA.
• Alicublog has more on the Sarkeesian-related lunacy and continued conservative outreach to women. (Apparently, catcalling has passionate defenders at NRO!) As Roy notes–it’s going great!
• The male privilege at work in this story of a man who fired at people who interrupted his public fellatio is almost poetic in scope. (Thanks so much to Origami Isopod for the link.)
• My latest work is done:

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As I say at my gallery, when this idea came to me, I was thrilled. I loved the idea of someone “putting up” the night–pulling up the cloak of darkness and sprinkling it with stars and moons.