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Obama Whines Michelle Doesn’t Collect Salary As First Lady

Dude, WTF?

And now we get more of the whining Barack Obama we’ve come to get annoyed at  and despise.  At a campaign stop in Colorado on Wednesday, Barack Obama got in  touch with his feminine side, which isn’t that hard after he’s been hanging out  in Chicago bath houses, in an attempt to sweep some women voters off their feet.  Just what was his tactic?  He complained that his wife Michelle did not receive  a salary for her First Lady duties.

First Lady duties?  Say what?  No one elected Mrs. Obama or gave her a post  to represent the people.  Why should we then pay her for being Obama’s wife?   Listen as Barry tries to play the tiniest of violins as he appeals to the  emotional women in his audience.

“I want to make sure that when she’s working she’s getting paid the same as  men,” Obama said. “I gotta say that First Ladies right now don’t [get paid],  even though that’s a tough job!”

It’s a tough job?  Please! It must be tough running around the country at tax  payer’s expense for purchasing expensive lingerie, spending millions for a  Hawaii vacation, as well as, flying all around the world with an entourage of  gullible liberal groupies and attending big dinners with famous people.  Yes  that must be quite the job Mrs. Obama has.  I bet she hardly breaks a sweat or a  nail.

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No other president in our history has made such a selfish, self-serving and  ridiculous request as Barack Obama did.  I have an idea for Obama:  Split your  salary with her, which is what should be happening anyway.  Matter of fact, just  give her all of it.  I mean you’ve told us you don’t need a tax cut.  I say you  don’t need any of the pay taxpayers give you.  Give it to your wife for another  vacation and set the example instead of whining like a little, hen pecked, angry  man.

It appears that for Barack Obama his wife is simply a sidekick that needs to  get paid for……..wait, what is she supposed to get paid for?  Telling me how to  eat healthy?  Demanding that I exercise?  Please.  It won’t be long until Barry  will be whining about his two daughters not getting paid for being first  children.

Shhh; don’t give him ideas!

Another Reason Why Women Should Not Be Pastors

In addition to what the Bible says (see Paul’s teachings in his letters).  (HT: Alkibiades)

A New York minister has been accused of seduction and sexual misconduct to a male parishioner after a four-month affair that included naked webcam meetings on church computers and meet-ups in rectories.

Rev Ginger Strickland, 33, used her religious authority to take sexual and emotional advantage of the church volunteer according to his report before abruptly ending their relationship leading to his contemplation of suicide.

‘God brought you to me,’ Ms Strickland of Manhattan’s Church of the Incarnation allegedly told Erik Campano while pursuing the 34-year-old according to his filed report obtained by the New York Post.

Hey Episcopalians / Anglicans; time to undo your wrong policy of ordaining women.

Should women be able to profit from false rape accusations?

Wintery Knight’s cheekily-titled, good post on false rape accusations.

Studies show about 40-50 percent of rape accusations are false

False accusations of rape or sexual assault are commonly used by women to get attention and sympathy, or to get an alibi when they’ve done something wrong, or to get revenge on someone.

Here’s a Fox News article from a prominent equity feminist, Wendy McElroy.

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If you would like to get an idea of how false rape accusations are handled by the police, here is an example. Usually no charges are filed, or if charges are filed, then they get off without jail time. (But the accused men can go to jail for years, see below)

False accusations in divorce trials

False accusations of domestic violence and sexual abuse are also commonly made during divorce settlements in order to get custody of the children, and the attendant benefits.

Consider this article from Touchstone magazine, by Stephen Baskerville.

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I often hear men, especially men in the church, complaining that young men won’t get married because they are too busy watching porn and playing video games. But maybe the real reason is that they don’t want to be exposed to domestic violence laws and divorced courts that are waiting to separate them from their earnings. And they can already get sex for free before marriage. If the church isn’t speaking out against premarital sex (to women) and against no-fault divorce and against biased domestic violence laws, then they have no one to blame for the so-called “marriage strike” but themselves.

LEGOs For Girls Has Feminist Group in a Twist

Yes, now they’re upset about Lego.  (HT: DW)

the SPARK Movement objects to the “LadyFigs,” the female version of the  little figures who man the spaceships, trucks and forts children create.  “Ladyfigs” are somewhat anatomically correct, which hypersexualizes girls,  according to the group.

“They have little breasts and they have fancy hair,” the organization’s  executive director, Dana Edell, told FoxNews.com. “And it just disturbs us that  this is the image that they want girls to see.”

Edell also objects to what she calls stereotyping of preferred pastimes for  girls.

“What it’s doing is telling girls that this is what’s important to you,”  Edell said of the beauty parlor and hot tub sets. “Girls aren’t building space  shuttles, they’re getting their nails done.”

More Mainstream Media Attention for the Manosphere

In a Sydney Morning Herald piece.  (HT: Ray Sawhill)

But there is another conversation going on – a fascinating exchange about  what is happening from the male point of view.  Much of it thrives on the  internet, in the so-called ”manosphere”. Here you will find men cheerfully,  even triumphantly, blogging about their experience. They have cause for  celebration, you see. They’ve discovered a profound change has taken place in  the mating game and, to their surprise, they are the winners.

Dalrock (dalrock.wordpress.com) is typical: ”Today’s unmarried  twentysomething women have given men an ultimatum: I’ll marry when I’m ready,  take it or leave it. This is, of course, their right. But ultimatums are a risky  thing, because there is always a possibility the other side will decide to leave  it. In the next decade we will witness the end result of this game of marriage  chicken.”

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During their 20s, women compete for the most highly desirable men, the Mr Bigs.  Many will readily share a bed with the sporty, attractive, confident men, while  ordinary men miss out. As Whiskey puts it at whiskeysplace.wordpress.com: ”Joe  Average Beta Male is about as desirable to women as a cold bowl of oatmeal.”

Data from American colleges show 20 per cent of males – the most attractive ones  – get 80 per cent of the sex, according to an analysis by Susan Walsh, a former  management consultant who wrote about the issue on her dating website,  hookingupsmart.com.

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These internet sites are not for the faint-hearted. The voices are often  crude and misogynist. But they tell it as they see it. There is Greenlander, an  apparently successful engineer in his late 30s. In his early adult life, he was  unable to ”get the time of day from women”. Now he’s interested only in women  under 27.

”The women I know in their early 30s are just delusional,” he says. ”I  sometimes seduce them and sleep with them just because I know how to play them  so well. It’s just too easy. They’re tired of the cock carousel and they see a  guy like me as the perfect beta to settle down with before their eggs dry out … when I get tired of them I just delete their numbers from my cell phone and stop  taking their calls …  It doesn’t really hurt them that much: at this point  they’re used to pump & dump!”

Why the U.S. Economy Is Biased Against Men

An Atlantic article that could have been a manosphere blog post!  (Hat tip: Ray Sawhill)

You’ve just landed on Planet Zuto.

The Intergalactic Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (IEEOC) has sent you to determine whether Zuto’s economy is fair to its two sexes: vozems and zems. Your boss suggests you’ll probably find sexism against the vozems.

But your first discovery is that 60 vozems graduate from college for every 40 zems. You discover clues as to why. Despite the under-representation of zems, many scholarships are set aside for vozems, few for zems. The curriculum accentuates vozems’ accomplishments, zems’ failings. Student groups are funded to encourage vozems, for example, Future BusinessVozems, far fewer for zems.

You beam your first report back to the IEEOC: Zuto U’s appear to be sexist against zems, not vozems.

Next, you examine the Zuto Bureau of Labor Statistics and find that the unemployment rate for vozems is 20% lower than for zems. You are shocked to discover that rather than trying to help zems land work, the government deliberately exacerbates zems’ deficit: vozem-owned businesses get special preferences in landing government contracts and taxpayer-backed small-business loans are set aside for vozems.

You beam back your next report to the IEEOC: More signs of sexism against zems. Your boss responds, “But vozems earn 77 zits for every 100 zems earn!”

The Case for Christian Pre-Nups

Great blog post over at the Christian Men’s Defense Network.

A bit of history:  Following the Babylonian captivity, it became common practice that Jewish males had to give their brides a pre-nuptial agreement, called a ketubah.  This tradition is still carried on within Orthodox Judaism.  The purpose of this agreement was to define the requirements for the marriage, and to dictate the minimum support a Jewish man was required to pay his ex-wife in the case of a frivolous divorce (she would get nothing in the case of adultery–in fact, she would be stoned to death).  As such, this dis-incentivized the Jewish man from divorcing his wife for just any old reason:  He would still have to support her, without his household being able to profit from her labor.  This is illustrative of how pre-nuptial agreements worked throughout history.

No “Boys” or “Girls” at Gender-Neutral Preschool in Sweden

Children there are required to just call each other ”friends”, and use a made-up gender-neutral pronoun.

A preschool in Sweden wants to eliminate gender bias by referring to children as “friends,” instead of girls and boys, and avoiding gender-specific pronouns such as “him” or “her.”

At the taxpayer-funded “Egalia” preschool in Stockholm, which opened last year for children ages 1-6, boys and girls play together with a toy kitchen, which is located next to the Lego bricks, the Associated Press reports.

They read books featuring gay and lesbian couples, single parents and adopted children, instead of fairy tales such as “Cinderella” or “Snow White,” which are rife with gender stereotypes.

Nobody Cares about Cuckolds

Dalrock links to the Christian Men’s Defense Network, which, among other things, is meant to serve as a resource for Christian men whose wives have been unfaithful.

When it happened to me, there was almost nothing out there to give me Christian guidance on what to do about it… Almost all the stuff I found was about a guy cheating, not the woman cheating.  This is despite the fact that female marital infidelity is a growing trend within the Christian community, one that the church refuses to deal with and likes to paper over.  In our society, women are almost as likely to cheat on their spouses as men, but there’s next to nothing out there to help a Christian man deal with that.

This is an instance of something I’ve observed before, and is at least equally true of the modern church: we consider women to be more valuable than men. I wrote:

Men are supposed to let women and children escape to safety while they lay down their lives. War-zone reporting focusses on the suffering of women while passing over the fact that all the men have been killed. When a woman is raped, it’s a calamity, but when a man is raped, it’s a joke. A woman losing her children is a nightmare, but a man losing his children is a routine matter of ‘justice’ in the divorce courts.

We can add that when a husband cheats, his wife is a victim; when a wife cheats, her husband is a loser.