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Jezebel has breathlessly recounted an argument that occurred between Columbia's own James, a self-described anti-feminist with a private Facebook page, and an unnamed Barnard student who slapped him for saying that he hadn't met an "intellectual feminist" in his life. Naturally, this all happened this weekend at a party East Campus because of course.

James' mysterious and covert Facebook also features a theoried-out anti-feminist rant. It's cryptic and long and its coherence is tenuous, but you can read the whole thing on Jezebel (if you're so inclined).

Oh okay fine, here's the thesis: "The ethos of the feminist movement and gender relations today in America [is] the homosexualization and corruption of women into earthly creatures moved only by sex and material power, incapable of affirming a natural and sacred feminine identity in favor of an unnatural masculine one."

See also: East Campus, Feminism, Jezebel, The East Campus Anti-feminist Smackdown

September 2, 2008 @ 6:02 PM | Comments 12 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | | Share on Facebook

Posted by his: #1 · reply · track
September 2, 2008 at 6:32 PM
manifesto is pretty long and rambling and misguided at times, but it certainly is rather serious intellectual encounter with gender and feminism.

but, the very fact that he is able to write this paper about feminism proves that there is intellectual feminism. certainly he comments at the ec party were ad hominem rhetoric rather than a real argument, but he certainly has one in his essay.

if feminism is nothing more that women become individuals in the world of capitalist production, in essence they become labor just like men, and all become slaves to the idea of continuous production as a good.

let's face it someone's got to raise the kids. maybe it should be mommy and daddy, but it certainly should be neither.

Posted by The King of Spain : #2 · reply · track
September 2, 2008 at 6:57 PM
He could have better argued that feminism is just an example of radical Lockean philosophy, as many conservatives do, rather than propping up Victorian gender roles with short quotations from biologists.

Unfortunately he has to wait three semesters to learn about that, and until then it's "nonsense upon stilts!"
Posted by ba-da bing: #3 · reply · track
September 2, 2008 at 7:54 PM (from campus)
he's also a self described fascist.
Posted by ...: #4 (in reply to #1) · reply · track
September 2, 2008 at 8:15 PM
i couldn't make it through the whole thing. but one ginormous hole i've found in his thinking is the fact that many, many lesbians/feminists tend to live alternative lifestyles. all the lesbians i've ever known have worked for nonprofits, owned coffee shops or have been working artists. a line of existence that is pretty much orthogonal to his one dimensional view of the world.

in fact, i'd argue that the imaginary feminist/lesbian model that he presents is rare, i think most lesbians are more interested in smoking pot and listening to rusted root rather than challenging him for his seat in front of microsoft excel.
Posted by intellectual: #5 · reply · track
September 2, 2008 at 9:05 PM
feminism doesn't exist, that much is true. Nevertheless, this guy's writing is as dry and unpleasant as an old feminist's vagina. Lighten up, douchebag!
Posted by Whoa whoa whoa: #6 · reply · track
September 2, 2008 at 10:59 PM (from campus)
I thought gender was a social construct
Posted by BREAKING NEWS: #7 · reply · track
September 3, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Controversy erupts on campus as a petticoat was found suspended outside a female professor's office.
Posted by pizzaparty: #8 · reply · track
September 3, 2008 at 12:26 AM (from campus)
As a witness to this slapping, it must be said that the girl who did it was stumbling drunk and probably didn't even realize what she was doing. She also did it because he refused to get her a beer, instead of the quoted comment. Not quite the feminist hero described in Jezebel, but whatever.
Posted by his friend: #9 · reply · track
September 3, 2008 at 12:28 AM (from campus)
his names isn't james, and she was just dumb
Posted by @ pizzaparty: #10 · reply · track
September 3, 2008 at 8:17 AM (from campus)
This had nothing to do with him getting her a beer.
Posted by Another Witness: #11 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
September 3, 2008 at 10:43 AM (from campus)
You're right, it was actually because he was singing along to "Crank That." Which is perhaps even more ridiculous.
Posted by correction: #12 · reply · track
September 3, 2008 at 7:47 PM (from campus)
the offensive song in question was "soulja boy." worthy of a slap, no?
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