This Father's Day, men are experiencing a crisis of masculinity. The solution? More feminism, says @nberlat https://t.co/2wVck0loV7

— NBC News THINK (@NBCNewsTHINK) June 17, 2018

One day.  Dad’s get one day or respect and NBC can’t let them have that.

This Father’s Day, men are experiencing a crisis of masculinity. The solution? More feminism.  Men experience violence and oppression because gender norms are not changing. In other words, feminism isn’t killing men — toxic masculinity is.

If dads are such a problem, then why is it that the highest rates of low academic performance and school dropouts, bad behavior, criminality, drug use, depression, and suicide come from kids raised without dads instead of with them?

They never seem to explain that one.

This whole article is standard Radical Feminist bullshit.

This weekend is Father’s Day, a holiday typically celebrated with displays of testosterone and gendered clichés. It’s also as good a time as any to acknowledge that there is indeed a crisis of masculinity. But it isn’t caused by feminism and changing gender norms. Rather, men experience violence and oppression because norms are not changing. And it is, in general, powerful men who enforce these unhelpful and sometimes dangerous masculine expectations, not tyrannous feminist women

Yeah, men just need to get over the fact that Feminism says that men are not needed any more.  Human beings need purpose in their life.   Idle people are unhappy.  Being a provider and protector gave men purpose.  Telling men that wanting to be the breadwinner is sexist and archaic and that “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” strips them of a purpose men have had for 10,000 years shouldn’t cause any societal problems at all.

(I’m not saying women can’t or shouldn’t work.  I’m saying that dismissing the role of men in society, devaluing it is a problem.)

As one example, consider male suicide rates. Men are the victims of three-quarters of suicides in the United States. This isn’t because feminists have successfully carried out a campaign to keep men from having sex. Rather, male suicide rates are tragically high because of traditional, stereotypical standards of manliness.

Yeah, if men were just more like women it would be better.  Telling men who lost their jobs, and their identity along with it, to go to therapy and cry will fix everything.

Taking apart this whole article would take too long and I’m not in the mood right now, but one part did stick out to me.  Here is where this goes off the rails.

Encouraging boys not to cry is dangerous; encouraging boys to love guns is even more so. “Guns are historically, stereotypically a masculine sort of thing,” Lisa Gold, a psychiatry professor at Georgetown told Quartz. Connecting manliness with gun ownership exacts a brutal toll. Statistics compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that in 2016, men accounted for a staggering 85 percent of gun deaths in the United States.

Men own guns at three times the rate that women do. As a result it’s not surprising that they are more likely to be hurt or killed in a firearm accident. And it also makes them much more likely to die when they attempt suicide. Women tend to prefer poison to guns when they try to kill themselves. Men use firearms — and firearms are a very effective way to inflict harm.

What the the fuck is this shit?  Law abiding gun ownership causes suicide?  Or maybe guns are sexist?

But of course when you take away the role of protector away from men, you want to take the guns away too.

If all you see about traditional masculinity is bad than without a doubt all you are going to think about guns is bad.

I guess this is why we need more feminism?  To make it clear to men that everything associated with men is bad and toxic and harmful and men should be less like men?

On father’s day I worked on my truck, made something out of wood, tinkered on one of my guns, and then paid the bill and tenderly fed my 6 month old daughter sweet potatoes and gave her a bath.

Why, because I’m a dad, that’s why.  I’m a provider and protector and it gives my life meaning and purpose.

But I guess the first half of that was too violent for NBC and my masculinity must be toxic as hell.  If so, I’ll embrace it.

Remember that Congressional candidate from Colorado who sprayed himself in the face with Mace as a campaign ad?

He was on Tucker Carlson on Friday.

This guy is an idiot.

He makes on good point, that the far left had this fantasy in their heads that banning the sale of new assault weapons will prevent school shootings.

Then it goes down hill.

No one on the far right, or the right in general, or anybody with a modicum of knowledge about school shooters thinks that school shooters are professional commandos.

We know it is precisely the opposite.  Their “training” amounts to playing first person shooters.  Most school shooters kill themselves as soon as they are engaged with lethal force.

That is the point.  The person responding to the shooter doesn’t need too be a trained commando either.  Just fire in the shooter direction with the best intention of hitting him and that, statistically speaking, will be enough to end the fight.

This guy then goes into the “arming teachers” means forcing teachers who don’t want to have guns to have guns.  I’ve beat this horse to death but, no it doesn’t mean that.  What I will add here is that I fundamentally believe that any teacher who would show up at a protest with a sign protesting against arming teachers wouldn’t use Mace either.

His tactical knowledge is terrible.  “The average distance of a school shooting is eight feet.”  Sure, when the shooter is in a classroom and has his victims cornered.

For anybody approaching a school shooter, a responder, someone running towards the danger, the distance to approach could be a hall way, auditorium, library, or large classroom.  A lot more than eight feet.  The range of the weapon of the responder should not be less (for all practical purposes) than that of the shooter.

If the shooter can hit you from one side of a 50 foot classroom, you should be able to hit him at that same distance.

Lastly, if a school shooter is someone who wants to cause maximum carnage, what will pepper spray do?  Nothing.  It may blind a shooter, who will then… probably fire blindly in the direction he was facing.  To end the fight you must incapacitate the shooter.  That means ending CNS function, either by destroying the major components of the CNS or depriving the CNS of oxygen by eliminating its blood supply.  A mucous membrane irritant is not up to the challenge.

This guy keeps trying so say he wants to have a serious conversation with Tucker but he himself is not serious.  He is totally bereft of facts about school shootings, the behaviors of active shooters, tactics, the effectiveness of less than lethal weapons.

This guy lives in his own fantasy land where a teacher will pepper spray a school shooter at point blank range who will then give up once he can’t see and will fall down rubbing his eyes until police get there.

This isn’t security, this is security theater of the worst kind.

This dude is an idiot.

Yeah, that’s a hell of a headline.  So what.

Remember two weeks ago I posted about some wild ass teenagers in in Kennedy Park in Lewiston, Maine, who we attacking people with sticks?

Here’s a new video because the old one in the last post is dead.

Well, they killed somebody.

Man who was ‘trying to get his life straightened out’ dies from beating in brawl at Lewiston’s Kennedy Park

The 38-year-old man who was badly beaten during a brawl this week in Lewiston’s Kennedy Park has died, state police said.

Donald Giusti of Lewiston died Friday afternoon at Central Maine Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized since late Tuesday night when the fight erupted.

Friends of Giusti, a father of two, described him as a former brawler who had been trying to turn his life around.

“He used to be a hell of a fighter,” 44-year-old Cynthia Stoddard told the Sun Journal. “Around three years ago, he said, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.’ He was a good guy. He was trying to get his life straightened out.”

Two groups clashed Tuesday on Knox Street after teenagers in a car reportedly drove past the park and shot pellets and BBs at a group gathered there, according to Sun Journal sources who said they witnessed the events.

Several people pursued the car from the park to Knox Street, where a melee broke out, the teens reportedly wielding sticks, bats and bricks, sources said.

First things first, do not get involved in a brawl.

It seems that the police have not been keeping order in the park and according to one local “It’s like the police are scared, but they need to put a stop to it or there are going to be riots.”

Once the roving mob of teens started shooting people with pellet guns from a car, a fight broke out.

I’ll say it again, don’t go looking for trouble.

But the part about the “wielding sticks, bats and bricks” is a critical thing to note.  It means that the mob of teens came armed and prepared for a violent encounter.

It’s just as easily they could have gone after a totally innocent person with those weapons.  They did start the fight by shooting people with pellet guns.

Roving mobs of violent teens are nothing to mess with.  It’s not one piranha that kills you, but the school.

I know what the antis would say but this is me not giving a shit.

I’m not going to leave my wife a widow and my children without a father because of some teenagers armed with bats and bricks.

I don’t care what age the person is, if someone tires you kill you, you go ahead and kill them right back.

Be prepared to shoot a kid if he’s going to smash in your skull with a brick.

I bought myself a father’s day gift at Lowes.  I got a 10 inch sliding miter saw.  It was on sale plus I had my 10% off coupon and my Lowes card, so it was priced very well.

I also bought some lumber.  Why buy a saw and not buy lumber, it’s like buying a gun and not buying ammo.

Actually I do have a project in mind, I am making a work table.

So I am paying for my saw and lumber and the poor woman running the register has to ask me a obvious question.

I, of course, cannot let the door be opened for fuckery without walking through it.  It is my weakness.

Cahsier: “Big project?”

Me: “A coffin.”

Cashier: “What?”

Me: “Those greedy sons-of-bitches at the funeral home gouge you to death.  Ten thousand dollars for a box I can make myself.”

Cashier: *Stares in shock.”

Me: “Grandma’s dead, she doesn’t need silk lining.  But don’t say I didn’t love her, I’m buying the premium pine.”

Cashier: *Utterly flabbergasted* “I’m sorry for you loss.”

Me: “Thank you.  Have a blessed day.”

My wife stopped accompanying me to the hardware store anymore because I take to long.  I’m not sure if that was the best idea.

As usual, for sake of discussion we are going to assume the info in the article is correct.

LIVINGSTON — In a case that tested the limits of Louisiana’s “stand your ground” laws, a Walker man found guilty of attempted manslaughter in the 2015 shooting of a home invader was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison.
Aaron Neames, 27, had been found guilty in the shooting case in May. He was sentenced on Thursday by 21st Judicial District Judge Bob Morrison.
At trial, the prosecution argued Neames went too far in shooting home invader Benjamin Jarreau, 19, of Gonzales, pursuing vigilante retribution after the man was already disarmed and out of the house.
The defense attorney maintained that Neames was justified in shooting the man, who only moments earlier had held three people hostage inside the house with a gun.

Walker man who shot home invader sentenced to 3 years; case tested ‘stand your ground’ law

Long story short: Benjamin Jarreau broke into a house and at gun point terrorized the people inside. Mr. Neames arrived, a struggle ensued and Jarraeu abandoned the house in a hurry and without a gun. It is what happens next what torques the pig’s tail:

According to Daniels, Jarreau left and got into his car. Neames followed him outside and shot into the car six times, striking Jarreau in the elbow and arm.

For the prosecution and eventually the jury, Mr. Jarreu was no longer being a threat and the efforts by the defense to explain that he got shot because Mr. Neames considered him a continuous threat, failed to make way.

Simply put: the moment that the attacker left the house, the whistle was blown and the clock for the previous event stopped, Neames was no longer covered by any Self-Defense statute.

Unfortunately the whistle is just a metaphor and you only can rely on your smarts not to step over the line. If the immediate threat has ceased, you are to stop, remain vigilant but take no action.

I almost forgot: The way I see it, SYG did  not apply.

The mothers set up their table by the door.
There was no special significance to that. It’s just that the group, which calls itself Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, felt that the door might be a good spot to grab people’s attention during what otherwise was supposed to be a 24-hour celebration of music and arts in Trenton.
Then came the gunfire — with the first bullets fired only a few feet from the moms’ table and a sign that asked people to “Imagine a world free of gun violence: What do you see?”
This was just one of the not-so-small incongruous details to emerge on Sunday from the latest American mass shooting, at the Art All Night festival in Trenton — an event that was supposed to promote “artistic diversity by fostering creativity’’ but instead became a shooting gallery.

Kelly: A mass shooting comes to New Jersey. What can be done?

J. Kb. already covered very well the event. I stumbled into the fact that the New Jersey chapter of Moms Demand happened to have a booth inside the building. What I can’t figure out is if there was somebody there at the time of the incident.  I check both the maim MDA FB page and the NJ one and other than saying everybody is OK, they offer no details. Although I would not be surprised that they’d come tomorrow saying they were “survivors” of the shooting because they happened to be in the same zip code just like Hogg and Emma do.

Will this shooting affect MDA’s modus operandi? Since its inception, Moms has been very careful by staging their booths and events in secure areas. They speak a lot about gun violence, but you won’t see them preaching their chitchat in the bad parts of town. This time, the bad part of town came to the party and, if they were there, I am sure some undies were soiled.

In the meantime,  hundreds of thousands of NRA members and other Gun Owners conducted “mass shooting” all over ranges across the nation and the only victims were made of paper.

There is a quote I love from a Mr. Maves from a debate on a crime bill in Ontario, Canada.

Crime will expand according to our willingness to put up with it.

He was 100% right.  As long as people are willing to look the other way, crime will get worse.

New York was far safer in the early 2000’s because Mayor Rudy Giuliani was not going to tolerate anything.  Now that Bill de Blasio is willing to tolerate homeless pissing on the streets, crime has gone up.

London is now more dangerous and New York city because the mayor is willing to put up with criminals getting away on mopeds if they are not wearing helmets.  What he will not put up with is the majority of Wikipedia editors being men.

Only 17% of Wikipedia biographies are of women, which means countless women’s achievements are missing online. We held a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to get more women’s stories on this crucial site. Thank you to all who took part @Bloomberg @WikimediaUK #BehindEveryGreatCity #LTW pic.twitter.com/H2wwR9vbM2

— Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) June 12, 2018

San Francisco is having an epidemic of car breakins. Over 30,000 in 2017, over 80 per day.

Many of them target tourists.

It seems as though the residents of San Francisco, at least some of them, are sick of it.

So what is one of the problems?

Well, in the state of California, if a car is unlocked and a person breaks in, than it is a misdemeanor.  The the car is locked and and window is broken, it is a felony.

BUT… a smashed window and broken glass is not evidence of a felony.

Nope, the victim has to testify that he or she did in fact lock the car.  No, I’m not kidding.

New Bill Seeks To Deter San Francisco Vehicle Break-Ins

Senate Bill 916 would allow prosecutors to prove that a defendant committed an auto burglary if the burglar broke a window in the vehicle, which to date has been deemed insufficient to get a conviction.

Under current law, one of the elements prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt is whether the vehicle was locked, according to Wiener’s office.

But there are situations that make that hard to do. An offender could break a window and then open the door and leave it open after a break-in. An offender could also break a window and the victim could forget whether they locked the door.

“Common sense would tell you that, if you have broken glass, obviously someone broke into the vehicle,” said SF District Attorney George Gascon. “This is a crime of opportunity, but a crime for organized gangs that has very little consequences.”

Throw in the fact that a tourist would have to return to San Francisco to testify in court that he locked his car and there is no chance of getting a conviction and under those circumstances any attorney would tell his client to plead down.

In those cases, a victim may be unavailable to testify whether the door was locked.

“We want to really clarify, that if the prosecution proves you bashed in the window to a car to get in, you’re guilty,” said Wiener.

Like I said.

So, part of the fix is to make a smashed window prima facie evidence that the door was locked and the crime is a felony.

So what did the California legislature do?

Car break-in crackdown bill made perfect sense. California lawmakers killed it.

Yep.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and District Attorney George Gascón teamed up in January to propose closing the loophole by ensuring that forcible entry into a vehicle for the purpose of stealing items from inside it would constitute unlawful entry. That would mean smashed windows would count as proof, and the victim wouldn’t have to come to court. Sounds pretty obvious, right?

The bill, SB916, made it through the Senate’s Public Safety Committee unanimously, but the Senate’s Appropriations Committee killed it. And under the weird way that committee works, bills can die behind closed doors, and the members aren’t under any obligation to say why. Wiener is on the committee but said the group never even discussed it.

So there is a severe problem in San Francisco and the state won’t even discuss a tiny improvement to the system.  Why not?

“We had essentially no opposition to it,” he said. “But there’s a strong belief not just in the Legislature but by the governor, too, that we should be cautious about expanding criminal liability. It’s a challenge we have to overcome.”

NO. FUCKING. SHIT.

The sanctuary state of California is the mecca of anti-cop social justice.  California is where coffee shops advertise that they won’t serve police.  Churches say that they won’t ever call the police again.  A news paper publishes an OpEd telling white people to stop calling the police on black people when they (whites) see black people breaking the law or being suspicious.

Why would California give the police more power?

They won’t.  If the legislature is going to do anything, it is going to make it even harder for police by further restricting their ability to defend themselves.

And how is all this working out for San Francisco?

Expand criminal liability? That would imply criminals are being held liable at all. Let’s review. Last year, there were 31,122 reports of car break-ins in San Francisco. Less than 2 percent of those led to arrests. And even less were prosecuted.

Dystopian hell-hole.  Got it.  I guaran-fucking-tee that these same people who are tired of being victimized will go out and vote for the same people who favor the criminals over the victims.

Crime will expand according to our willingness to put up with it, the legislature of the Golden State is willing put put up with just about anything as long as they keep getting elected, and the voters are willing to put up with it more than they are willing to vote for someone who isn’t a far Left wing progressive.

And that is why California is the way it is.