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Iris Vander Pluym’s Blog

Iris Vander Pluym’s blog

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Dear men: read this stuff kthx.

Dear beloved men: Yes, I know you’re a liberal, feminist guy. You totally get it! You really do. For example, you regularly …

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PSA for Christian d00ds: DO NOT MARRY US. PLEASE.

Pastor Stephen Kim has graciously provided a valuable public service in highlighting ten qualities women urgently need to cultivate in themselves in order to guard against the dismal fate that is Christian wifehood. At least according to the pastor, Christian men are terrible.

Racism is whites’ problem to solve.

Solutions to racist police violence and the mass incarceration of people of color ultimately lie with whites interrogating ourselves about our participation in the social, cultural and political systems that sustain racism—and committing to doing something about it.

Funny times with Forced Birthers.

Jill Filipovic has a good piece up in Cosmopolitan (yes, that Cosmopolitan) entitled Abortion Clinic Protesters: “Sidewalk Counselors” or “Sidewalk Terrorists”? It …

Andrew Sullivan: FREE SPEECH™ of straight white d00ds dooooomed by evil feminists.

Friends, I am sorry to report that FREE SPEECH™ is, for all intents and purposes, dead. And not just in Dawkinsland either, where Richard and his fellow…what's the word?… "rationalists" I believe they call themselves, are at this very moment cowering in abject fear of no exaggeration witch hunts, actual Inquisitions and literal Orwellian Thought Police. But this terrifying campaign of violent censorship has now gone far beyond even that: Andrew Sullivan, "conservative-libertarian" columnist, reports with alarm that "The SJWs Now Get To Police Speech On Twitter." Yes indeed: “Twitter has empowered leftist feminists to have a censorship field day.” Obviously, if these leftist feminist censors are not stopped—and pronto—next thing you know straight white men will be the ones fleeing their homes in fear for their lives. Just like Richard Dawkins.

Operation Hand Sanitizer

As a lifelong student of the deadly scourge known as “conservatism,” I read with great interest a recent piece by Ezra Klein …

Richard Dawkins, hysterical dumbass.

Richard Dawkins has been keeping himself very busy indeed during his stay as an involuntary organ donor. He has bravely taken to Twitter to defend Michael Shermer, the notorious subject of multiple accusations of predatory sexual behavior toward women, and tweeted some of the stupidest thing His Intellectual Excellency has ever said. And that is saying something, my friends.

BREAKING: Richard Dawkins, live organ donor!

[CONTENT NOTE: minimizing gender-based harassment; misogynist abuse; minimizing pedophilia and rape; ableism; extreme hostility to consent, bodily autonomy and agency; one m-f* …

PROJECTION: It’s Not Just For Movies.

Having dedicated much of my adult life to the study of conservatives in the wild (and not coincidentally, much of my childhood to navigating those worlds to survive), I am here to provide you with practical tips that can save you a whole lot of time you would otherwise spend scratching your head in dumfounded bewilderment.