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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Links - 11th December 2025 (2 - Feminism)

Breaking911 on X - "Jen Psaki says JD Vance in “scarier” than Donald Trump & suggests his wife Usha wants out of their marriage. “Blink 4 times. Come over here. We’ll save you.”"
Margot Cleveland on X - "I must admit, the pivot to "JD Vance is worse than Hitler" started earlier than I anticipated."

Jen Psaki suggests Usha Vance needs saving from her husband - "Joe Biden’s former press secretary has been accused of making light of domestic abuse “for political sport” after suggesting Usha Vance should be “saved” from her husband.  Jen Psaki said the US vice-president’s wife should “blink four times” if she needs saving from “scary” JD Vance... A women’s charity hit out at Ms Paski, now an MSNBC host, accusing her of trivialising domestic abuse with the apparent “joke”. “Jen Psaki’s comments are emblematic of a deep cultural hypocrisy that trivialises the very issues progressives claim to champion,” Meaghan Mobbs, the director of Independent Women’s Centre for American Safety and Security, said.  “To joke about a woman being coerced or controlled by her husband is to weaponise the language of abuse for political sport. It diminishes real victims, erodes the seriousness of coercion, and reveals a casual cruelty that has become all too common in our public discourse.  “In our Women and the West report, we argued that a society’s treatment of women, its ability to uphold dignity, equality, and moral consistency, is the true measure of its civilisation. Psaki’s remarks fail that test. They reflect a worldview in which women are only believed, respected, or defended when they serve the ‘right’ political cause.  “What Ms Psaki said wasn’t humour. It was contempt masked as wit, and it speaks volumes about a movement that has lost both its manners and its moral compass.”"
Only left wing women have agency

Jen Psaki exposes the problem with talentless Left-wing women - "In the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election, a pro-Democrat campaign group released an advert voiced by Julia Roberts. “In the one place where women still have the right to choose, you can do the right thing,” it said, which of course meant voting for Kamala Harris, a barely sentient candidate with bad ideas, just because she was a woman. The subtext was that oppressed female voters could only give voice to their inevitably Left-wing opinions in the privacy of the polling booth.  At the time, some wondered if the advert was a joke. But these people exist – the ones who believe that anybody who votes differently or thinks differently to them must be dumb, racist, misogynistic, evil or abused. Sometimes, they hold the most influential jobs in the country... What Psaki seemed not to know – or worse, not to care about – is that Usha Vance is not some docile appalachian Stepford wife cowering behind a wood-burning stove. She’s a Yale-educated lawyer who clerked for both Chief Justice John Roberts on the US Supreme Court and Brett Kavanaugh. She has three children, a formidable CV and a life that suggests she could probably argue most people in Washington DC into intellectual submission before breakfast with her beautiful family. She could certainly outwit the quivering, bumbling, pathetic excuse of a press secretary that was Jen Psaki.  To assume that Usha Vance has been brainwashed, bullied or captured by her husband’s politics is more than insulting, it’s revealing. It tells us that Psaki, and the many who nodded along to her “blink if you need help” joke, apparently cannot conceive of an intelligent, successful woman choosing conservatism freely. The liberal imagination has its limits, and one of them is the idea of female agency existing outside progressive orthodoxy.  This is what makes Psaki’s comment so much worse than a cheap laugh line. It’s a confession – not about Usha Vance, but about the patronising world-view of a certain class of feminist who cannot imagine disagreement without dysfunction. If you’re a conservative woman, they assume you must be brainwashed. If you’re married to a conservative man, you must be terrified. There’s also a less serious point to the Psaki controversy: the desperation for attention among the former Biden alumni now hustling for relevance after they were exposed as complicit in what should be considered one of the biggest cover-ups in American history – Biden’s cognitive decline. Psaki, with her MSNBC gig and podcast appearances, seems locked in a competition with Karine Jean-Pierre, another former Biden press secretary who is also now on the self-promotion circuit. This begs the question: who can be the most victimised by their own mediocrity?  Jean-Pierre’s new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, appears to be a case study in self-pity disguised as progress. In it, she laments that she was criticised as “too wooden” and lacking policy depth, which, she explains, must have been because “no one has ever looked like me that has been at that podium”. She insists that as a black woman, things are “just different”. She writes that the Democratic Party ultimately failed black women, who she seems to treat not as individuals with agency, but as a monolithic voting bloc to be flattered, guilted and “seen”.  That’s the thread connecting Psaki and Jean-Pierre. This instinct to infantilise women by insisting that the world is rigged against them and that their only protection is allegiance to the Left. Someone like Usha Vance shatters that illusion simply by existing. She’s not a victim, not a symbol, not a sob story. She’s a wife, a mother and a lawyer, in that order, perhaps, and she seems perfectly fine without Psaki’s rescue mission. And as for Jean-Pierre: she seems to genuinely believe she will go down in history as one of the most maligned press secretaries because of the colour of her skin, not because she was catastrophically bad at her job. Which was admittedly a hard one, because of the fact that her boss had one foot in the grave. She was expected to tell the truth to the American people, and instead, she treated them like children.  These women – Psaki, Jean-Pierre, Julia Roberts, even – talk endlessly about female empowerment, but their politics rely on the assumption that women are fragile, foolish and easily led. It’s not conservatism that infantilises women. It’s progressivism that does, and then sells infantilisation as liberation, and labels you as evil or terrified if you don’t play pretend."

Meme - "Feminists when men take the most dangerous jobs *sleeping*
Feminists when men make the most CEOs *upset*"

Meme - Kristie (Kathy/Jane Doe 2): "When the Billy Graham rule goes too far-a man refused to ride an elevator with me. He said he'd wait for the next one. I rode the elevator alone, humiliated, remembering my body is dangerous to men. If you can't take an elevator ride with a woman, the problem isn't her body."
Crying Woman: "RIDE THE ELEVATOR WITH ME!"
Man: "I'll just take the next one."
Meanwhile, other women complain that riding a lift with a man makes them feel uncomfortable. You can never win

Angel Reese shows off private jet after complaining about her WNBA salary

Meme - Miley Cyrus: "Stop objectifying me" *opens bare legs wide with crotch only covered by a thin strip of cloth*

I'm sick of men's behaviour on public transport - I'm fighting back - "Sometimes it feels intentional, others it’s likely a subconscious act – a physical manifestation of patriarchal attitudes all wrapped up in a sexist microaggression that women face daily. Either way, there’s no excuse for it, which is why I’ve spent the last few months performing my own kind of manspreading (womanspreading, if you like) as a way of reclaiming my space"
Left wingers want to be oppressed so badly, then they project and claim that's what right wingers are guilty of

If mansplaining is just how men talk, maybe they need to be taught the art of conversation Good luck if you want to instruct women on what to do properly, because that'll be sexism and misogyny

There's a thread on TwoXChromosomes asking why men use "cat lady" as an insult. : r/MensRights - "All the replies are saying is due to misogyny, male insecurity and hate etc.  That's right...after over 10-20 years of using "incel", "virgin", "male fragility", "gammon", "centrist dad" and "misogynist", as an insult against pretty much any man who makes even the most gentle criticism or counter argument against feminism , apparently having one term - cat lady - for what might be deemed a "female loser" is grotesque and hateful."

Meme - TDOM Ill: The Great ...: "Women have spent 40 years trashing men, smashing the patriarchy, promoting feminism, voting for AWFUL policy that lead us to where we are. NOW they want men to stand up and protect them. Dude, we've been trying. You didn't listen."
classicalliberty @jsolom100: "Women overwhelmingly vote for pro migrant policies and now men must risk their lives to fend off a world that leftist female votes created."
Ada Lluch @ada _lluch: "I think I speak in the name of all European women when I say we no longer feel safe in our streets. Men, it's time to protect us."
Weird. Feminists like to mock men who say they will protect women by asking who they will protect them from

Denmark to remove ‘pornographic’ mermaid statue, reports say - "A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”.  The Danish agency for palaces and culture is reportedly removing the 4x6 metre Den Store Havfrue (the Big Mermaid) from Dragør Fort, part of Copenhagen’s former sea fortifications, because it does not align with the cultural heritage of the 1910 landmark... The man behind the 14-tonne sculpture, Peter Bech, has said he does not understand the criticism, saying that the stone figure’s breasts are simply “of a proportional size” to its scale.  Others have said the criticism reflects society’s attitudes to women’s bodies more generally – and not in a good way. For Aminata Corr Thrane, Berlingske’s debate editor, the scrutiny of the mermaid’s breasts was tantamount to body shaming.  “Do naked female breasts have to have a specific academic shape and size to be allowed to appear in public?” she wrote.  Noting that the Big Mermaid was “arguably a bit less naked” than her famed petite contemporary in bronze and granite, the Little Mermaid, Corr Thrane added: “On the other hand, she has bigger breasts, and that’s probably where the problem lies.”... Bech, who has said he made the statue in response to tourists’ comments that the Little Mermaid – inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale – was too small, has said he is often told by people in Dragør that they love his sculpture. He is hoping to find a way to keep it in the town"
You're only allowed to put up statues of ugly women

Sanna Marin: I lost count how many times I was threatened with rape - "Ms Marin is convinced that she was held to a different standard than male politicians.  “We soon realised that my real political crime was that I did not behave and look the way a prime minister was expected to,” she said in her memoir.  “I was too informal, too relaxed and I danced in a way that was considered indecent. I spent my time at house parties with young people instead of sitting at a formal eight-course dinner sipping carefully selected wines.”  Her government’s “behaviour was moralised in a way that is more reminiscent of a time when women were not allowed to go to restaurants without a male escort than of today’s society”."
>acknowledges she behaved differently from male politicians
>complains about sexist treatment

Finnish minister says sexist online comments about female politicians is a "threat to democracy" - "Some democracies these days seem to perceive themselves as fragile to the point that the use of sexist comments on social media directed at politicians represents a “threat” to democracy.  That’s the claim made by Finnish Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo, whose comment about this particular threat came after NATO produced a report about the number of what are understood to be sexist and misogynistic remarks made on social media about Finland’s cabinet, dominated by millennial women.   The report was compiled by the military alliance’s Special Center for Communication Strategy (Stratcom), that dedicated four months to analyzing 350,000 Twitter posts and finding that there has been an “extensive” number of such remarks made against the 12 women who sit in Finland’s 19-member cabinet, that is also led by a woman, Sanna Marin.  The NATO study was led by Rolf Fredheim who revealed for the Swedish broadcaster SVT that the algorithm used to pore through the hundreds of thousands of tweets was not smart enough to distinguish ironic or sarcastic terms from those simply meant to insult the government’s members based on their sex."
From 2021

Finland 'party' PM Sanna Marin seen GRINDING on mystery man in new video after denying she was on drugs in twerking clip - "FINLAND’S under-fire prime minister has been filmed grinding on a man in fresh leaked footage – a day after she was forced to deny she was on drugs...   The man has his arms around the PM, touching her lower back with his lips close to her neck.  It isn’t clear if he is kissing Marin – who married husband Markus Räikkönen in 2020 – or whispering to her.   On Friday, Finnish newspaper Seiska alleged that a “visibly drunk” Marin and several friends pulled up to the Teatteri nightclub in Helsinki on the night of August 6 at 2.30am. There they partied with a group including Finnish popstar Alma until gone 4.30am.  Witnesses told the paper that Marin, who is married with a four-year-old daughter, had seemed to be flirting with several different men in the club.  “Sanna danced intimately with at least three different men,” one claimed.  “She also sat on the laps of two different men. She placed her hand next to one man and he held her gently by the arm.” Footage from the night reportedly captures several bystanders commenting on her behaviour.  “The prime minister can’t be in that condition,” one clubber reportedly said.  Another replied: “Oh my god, she’s in a shocking state,” while a third asked if any other country’s prime minister would behave in such a way... This video comes after footage – believed to have been filmed earlier on the same night, showed Marin with a host of Finnish celebs dancing, singing and drinking with pals in an apartment.  At one stage someone off-camera refers to “powder gang”, seen as alluding to cocaine, although Marin has strenuously denied using drugs at the bash...   This isn’t the first time Marin’s supposedly wild behaviour has got her into trouble.  She was forced to apologise last year for going clubbing at 4am despite having been in contact with a minister who had tested positive for Covid.  Marin attended dinner and drinks just hours after being in contact with her infected Foreign Minister, claiming she was told she didn’t have to isolate because she was fully vaccinated.  However, she later said she missed a text message advising her to isolate because she didn’t have her government phone on her at the time – a decision her critics slammed as “careless”.  In October 2020, a year after she was elected prime minister, she appeared in an interview for lifestyle magazine Trendi wearing a blazer with nothing underneath."
From 2022. Of course the 2025 article does not mention this, even when it talks about her failed 3 year relationship. Because we all know that male politicians (outside France) are never criticised for intimacy with someone other than their partners or for being drunk

Fun-loving Finnish PM Sanna Marin's nightclub boy toy denies affair | Toronto Sun - "The man photographed canoodling with party girl turned Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin is denying the twosome are having an affair. Finnish rock star Olavi Uusivirta, 28, revealed that he and the controversial political leader are “just friends” and there is “nothing inappropriate between them.”"

Female medical students ‘face culture of sex attacks and harassment’ - "Four in 10 female medical students in the UK have been sexually assaulted or harassed, research has revealed... Sexism was seen as a problem in medical education by a majority of respondents to the survey (84 per cent), with some reporting being given misogynistic career advice. One said: “I was steered away from surgery and told to consider general practice because it’s more compatible with having children.”"
Conflating "harassment" and "assault" is very unhelpful, but it's sexier, so

✧ on X - ""marriages used to last." nuh bro, your grandma was chained by the ankle"
Thread by @TDisputations on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Imagine your grandmother, filled with love, brings you cookies in the 1990s/2000s and all you can think is that she’s some kind of slave to your grandfather.  This is the kind of mental illness feminism creates. Women just were not psyopt into believing their highest goal was working for a corporation. They wanted to be mothers and grandmothers, for the most part."
Mack on X - "I am once again reminding you that this sort of thinking exists because these people don’t understand you actually speak to your own grandparents and family."

STUNNER on X - "Why is it that the examples of good, admirable behavior from men always come from the same generations of men that women have labeled as nothing but oppressors and abusers?  Every day, they say their mothers and grandmothers were oppressed, yet the same people go online and claim men “aren’t real men anymore”…men who bought flowers, opened car doors, paid all the bills, gave up their seats for women, were more romantic, and built things for women.   But these same men they say did nothing but oppress women are the exact men they now want us to become.  So which is it? Were they oppressors, or were they caring, considerate, and chivalrous?  If these men truly were constant oppressors, then why would they go out of their way to show kindness, generosity, and respect toward the women in their lives?   Oppressors don’t build homes, work long hours to support their families, or sacrifice their comforts for the happiness of those they supposedly control. Oppressors don’t open doors or give up their seats for the people they are supposedly suppressing.  So,So stop pretending it was all oppression. Stop telling men to be what their mothers’ generation already was, while claiming that generation was “toxic.” The story doesn’t add up…and women deserve honesty, not contradictions dressed up as ideology."

I regret belittling men; at 63, I’ve ended up alone - "I have always taken the driving seat, been determined to get the last word and was too busy with books to master the art of charm.  I’m convinced that the reason I’m still booking a table for one at the age of 63 instead of having settled with a significant other is because, like so many women of my generation, feminism has ruined my love life. Instead of empowering us, those ideals of the second-wave feminists made us believe marriage and domesticity were to be avoided like the plague and that men were competition rather than partners.   I might have a successful career as a writer and broadcaster, but I have never had children or been married, and my longest relationship lasted eight years. I regret this; I had always imagined I would end up married with two wonderful children and living in a house in the countryside. I have paid a hefty price for my so-called liberation.  I was 17, and a pupil at Godolphin and Latymer – one of Britain’s most academic institutions – when I was introduced to the Women’s Liberation movement. It offered such hope and excitement, and we spent our lunch breaks soaking up the feminist mantras of Germaine Greer and Betty Friedan: “Act like men,” they cried as they burnt their bras and demonised housework and the family. By the time I was 25 clutching a degree in French and Italian, I was a bright, confident feminist, keen to flex her intellectual muscles and to never let a man get the last word. I read Nietzsche for fun and my bedside table has always buckled beneath the weight of substantial, intellectually challenging books. At first, men loved my wit and intelligence. “You’re such a breath of fresh air”; “I love talking to you”; “You’re the first woman I’ve met who stimulates me,” they’d trill.  That was until I had lectured them for the umpteenth time on the virtues of modernism. “You’ll never win an argument against Kate,” one man said as he watched me outsmart yet another potential lover. Subtext: don’t bother.   Men have called me “intimidating”, “scary”, and “opinionated”. I now see that not only was I trying to prove I was their intellectual equal – or superior – I was treating every encounter with a man like he was my adversary.  If a date bought me a bouquet of flowers, instead of smiling and putting them in a vase of water. I would bite their head off. “Can’t you buy me some nice olive oil or balsamic vinegar?” I said with an eye roll, to one hapless suitor as he stood wilting faster than the fragrant offering he held in his hand. He had bothered to think about making me happy and I crushed him for it.  I placed so much importance on finding a “strong man” who could match me, that I forgot men are people with feelings. Indeed I forgot I had feelings and hid my softness. I now see that I longed to be loved but I was too scared to be vulnerable. I was using my sharp mind to protect my all-too-soft heart against yet further rejection.   Another thing I regret deeply is my tally of one-night stands when I was younger. I distinctly remember thinking it would be uncool to say no to the men I met at parties, or dated but I struggled to enjoy it. There was always a disconnect. This was abundantly clear the morning after. As I lay there waiting for a sign of affection, he would be singing the triumphant “had her” song in the shower. A quick cheerio and he was gone.  While I pretended to enjoy it, I felt uncomfortable about sex so early on. I felt empty and used.   My generation of women were encouraged to “have sex like a man” – in other words have casual sex – but it backfired. Fast forward to now, the idea that women are different from men and that casual sex can be harmful to us is gaining traction.  In her latest book, A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century: The Young Adult Adaptation, Louise Perry explores how the sexual revolution impacted women negatively and led to unwanted consequences.   She argues that casual sex, dating apps, pornography and the normalisation of sexual kinks are putting women at risk. Although contraception has reduced the chances of pregnancy, she points to the risk of contracting diseases or being a victim of violence – in a culture where “premarital sex is the norm”.  She believes that society would benefit from returning to traditional values about sex...   I have learnt to step back and let things go, and have realised that things mustn’t always veer towards the satisfaction of the self. I am struck by how easy and peaceful it feels to let my dates/boyfriends take the lead. It is not a case of dumbing down or morphing into a Stepford woman, but simply dialling down a bit of me, and letting them shine."

It’s certainly not all men, nor is it correct to suggest most men and it’s even disingenuous to call it some men; it’s in fact a small minority of bad people… : r/MensRights - "32,824,970 men from a population of 33,100,000 men equates to in excess of 99.2% of the male population that are NOT rapists, predators nor sex offenders."
"Feminism as with any other identity politics requires all people of a demographic be held responsible for the minority. It’s essentially the nadir fallacy and guilt by association.  They need to blame the vast majority of men who are innocent in order to justify practices that discriminate against men and favor women. It’s basic patriarchy theory."

One small step for womankind in an all-male Greek state | Dawn Foster | The Guardian
'We are now free': Yazidis fleeing Isis start over in female-only commune | World news | The Guardian
The difference in tone is revealing

Lukas (computer) 🔺 on X - "If you let a STEM woman talk for long enough they usually do the bit about "STEM needs more women bc men don't have empathy and they can't read a room and it creates spaces that are unfomf-" without their prodigious room-reading empathy kicking in to tell them nobody's listening"
AEIOU on X - "Men in STEM talk about STEM. Women in STEM talk about women in STEM."

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