Have some cheese with your whine, Kyle Payne
Topic: Misogynist Assholes

[cross-posted at Aiken Area Progressive]

 STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Some people just don't get that their actions can have major consequences. Case in point, the pseudo-feminist named Kyle Payne. From Ren:

"As I mentioned previously, I have faced a great deal of criticism through the internet. Since November 2007, I have maintained a personal blog through wordpress.com entitled “The Road LessTraveled” (kylepayne. wordpress.com). Through this blog, I have spoken out in support of feminism and other social justice movements, particularly against different forms of violence (e.g. physical,sexual, military). In the days following my guilty plea, a pro-pornography blogger picked up the story, and having identified obvious discrepancies between the “public face” on my blog and my criminal actions, began an online smear campaign. This effort, which has garnered support from over fifty prominent bloggers from around the world, as well as at least one official trade publication of the pornography industry, has raised considerable public attention toward my actions, and it has alerted me to the larger political consequences of those actions. While many of the criticisms online are based on inaccurate or incomplete information about my case, the feelings and concerns behind them are highly appropriate."

We are smearing you, Mr. Payne? That is a heap of bullshit. Not to mention laughable. Listen, Mr. Asshole Payne. You touched that woman against HER will. You videotaped that woman against HER will. You raped that woman. You violated that woman. Just like that. Period. Game over.

You did this to yourself, Mr. Payne. You were the one who preyed on that woman. It is your fault. And you are the offender.

Now, Mr. Payne, when are you gonna quit whining and take responsiblity for your actions? Women don't need pseudo-allies like you. In fact, you no longer have a place in feminist circles, no longer have a place anywhere where victimized females may be, no longer have a place speaking for or with us, you knucklehead. Can't you take a hint? Every type of feminist -- from sex-positives like Ren to radicals like Debs from the Burning Times 1645 -- hammered you over this.

Your whole post is pathetic, Mr. Payne. What about her? Do you mention your victim in your self-serving sideshow of a post? What a moron. Women don't exist for you. The last thing women or the feminist movement need is YOU, Mr. Payne.

Go away at once, Mr. Payne.

John McCain is blatantly racist
Topic: Assholes in the news

[cross-posted at Aiken Area Progressive]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Once again, John McCain has offered no plans in the past 61 days. The only thing that he has offered in this period is blatantly racist attacks against Sen. Barack Obama.

Case in point: an ad on the GOP candidate's web page calling Sen. Obama as Moses.

Yesterday afternoon, McCain defended these despicable attack ads as "having fun". I'll tell McCain right here, right now: THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT YOUR RACIST ADS.

McCain has become the most despicable and most dishonorable person ever to run for the highest office in the land.

McCain has blatantly dishonored our troops by voting against no fewer than seven items related to our servicepeople, thereby making his record on our troops far worse than Sen. Obama's.

McCain has falsely accused Sen. Obama of shooting hoops in Germany when that actually happened in Kuwait AFTER his visit with troops in the country just to the southeast of Iraq.

And perhaps the most racist ad of all time (prior to Friday's ad on the McCain web page) was one of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton with Obama.

These ads show that John McCain is nothing short of a disgusting has-been who has shown utter contempt towards African-Americans, women, LGBT people and our troops.

The McCain campaign was the one who injected race into this campaign. And McCain was the one who started all of this last weekend. McCain has shown that he is even worse than the Ku Klux Klan when it comes to the treatment of African-Americans.

On November 4, reject racist John McCain and his racist Republican party.

More on Kyle Payne, the "advocate" turned abuser

[cross-posted from Aiken Area Progressive]

STORM LAKE, Iowa -- As many blogs have been telling you this week, Kyle Payne, 22, advocated against pornography and a little less than ten days ago, he pled guilty to two charges related to his sexual assault and illegal videotaping of a then college freshman (now a sophomore) while she was unconscious.

Looks like he has a Youtube page. (thanks to DK, a Renegade Evolution reader for pointing this out)

Also, currently, Ren has no less than 30 blogs that have exposed Mr. Payne as a hypocrite.

Kyle Payne is no friend of women
Topic: Assholes in the news

[cross-posted from Aiken Area Progressive]

 STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Via Ren and Cara Kulwicki.

So, I have noticed that a lot of the blogs have uncovered the cold, hard facts concerning Kyle Payne, 22. He masquerades himself as part of the anti-porn feminist movement, but as no fewer than 18 blogs have reported, including the three aforementioned, he was arrested for sexual assault of an unconscious woman on Valentine's Eve.

Kyle Payne was arrested for breaking into the room of and assaulting an unconcious female student at his University while he was a resident advisor. He plead guilty to felony attempted burglary in the second degree and two counts of invasion of privacy. Kyle Payne, feminist ally and enemy of pornography, agrees that "with an intent to arouse my sexual desire, I photographed and filmed Jane Doe and her breast without her consent."

Yeah. Hypocrisy at its total worst. Mr. Payne has already pled guilty to burglary and invasion of privacy. Here is the court document about the sexual assault:

In documents filed with the court, Payne agrees that “with an intent to arouse my sexual desire, I photographed and filmed Jane Doe and her breast without her consent.” A portion of the plea agreement stating that Payne was of sound mind when the incident took place in early 2007 was stricken from the document, leaving only the portion where Payne agrees that he is currently of sound mind.

At the time of the incident, Payne had been employed by Buena Vista University as a dormitory resident adviser. Police reports indicate that while attending to an intoxicated and unconscious female student, Payne reportedly assaulted and photographed her. The guilty plea entered Monday did not include assault charges. Tips received by police and campus security following the incident led to a 10-month investigation that resulted in Payne’s arrest in February.

He is now staring down a five year jail term and a $7,500.00 fine. But I wouldn't hold my breath for him wearing a prison jumpsuit. And one would certainly think that a strong anti-violence advocate would be in support of stiff penalties for sex crimes in the name of justice. Or maybe not.

As Mrs. Kulwicki mentions, there are strong male allies within the feminist movement. But Mr. Payne is actually a psuedo-feminist, in fact he is an enemy. And committing an act of sexual violence is never, ever an accident -- NO MATTER WHAT.

Also, his blog has been updated thrice since his plea nearly 240 hours ago on July 1.

I know women, many of them feminists, who have been distrustful of men due to past experiences. That is why Cara, Ren, Jill F., Daisy and Natalia among others have been working hard to make men like myself part of the feminist movement. Lord knows that I would love to see women and men one day live in peace and harmony. I can't blame any woman for feeling distrustful of men, especially those who were raped by men.

BTW, if formal sentencing is just around the corner. Belledame of Fetch Me My Axe has the lowdown on how those in the Storm Lake area can attend his sentencing -- and it is open to the public. If you live in the Storm Lake area, go and attend!

And Mr. Payne, please remove the blogs of all progressive South Carolinians and Americans form your blogroll at once!

Kansas NOW member killed by assholish ex
Topic: violence against women

[cross-posted from Aiken Area Progressive]

TOPEKA -- Via Veronica.

Jana Mackey was killed by her 46-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adolfo Garcia-Nuñez, who killed himself in a prison in Elizabeth, N.J.

I am angry that a great woman was killed by an abusive ex-boyfriend. She was one of the people who organized the March for Women's Lives in 2004 for Kansans who travelled there.

It is sickening.

It's still amnesty for telecoms
Topic: Assholes in the news
WASHINGTON -- What part of NO AMNESTY FOR TELECOMS don't Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) get?

He announced a so-called compromise that would give amnesty to telecoms who blatantly broke the law and violated our privacy.

Russ Feingold also calls it amnesty, or rather, capitulation:

The proposed FISA deal is not a compromise; it is a capitulation. The House and Senate should not be taking up this bill, which effectively guarantees immunity for telecom companies alleged to have participated in the President's illegal program, and which fails to protect the privacy of law-abiding Americans at home. Allowing courts to review the question of immunity is meaningless when the same legislation essentially requires the court to grant immunity. And under this bill, the government can still sweep up and keep the international communications of innocent Americans in the U.S. with no connection to suspected terrorists, with very few safeguards to protect against abuse of this power. Instead of cutting bad deals on both FISA and funding for the war in Iraq, Democrats should be standing up to the flawed and dangerous policies of this administration.

“No matter how they spin it, this is still immunity,” said Kevin Bankston, a senior lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy group that has sued over the president’s wiretapping program. “It’s not compromise, it’s pure theater.”

The ACLU went further in its attack of this amnesty bill:

With news that a surveillance bill may be voted on in the House of Representatives as early as tomorrow, the American Civil Liberties Union sternly warned members against voting for the legislation. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has worked closely with the White House and has led the effort to gut the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and give the telephone companies what amounts to a pardon for breaking the law.

The following may be attributed to Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office:

"Congress is poised to once again pass disastrous surveillance legislation, now upping the ante with a thinly-veiled giveaway to some major campaign donors.

"This bill allows for mass and untargeted surveillance of Americans’ communications. The court review is mere window-dressing – all the court would look at is the procedures for the year-long dragnet and not at the who, what and why of the spying. Even this superficial court review has a gaping loophole – ‘exigent’ circumstances can short cut even this perfunctory oversight since any delay in the onset of spying meets the test and by definition going to the court would cause at least a minimal pause. Worse yet, if the court denies an order for any reason, the government is allowed to continue surveillance throughout the appeals process, thereby rendering the role of the judiciary meaningless. In the end, there is no one to answer to; a court review without power is no court review at all."

"The Hoyer/Bush surveillance deal was clearly written with the telephone companies and internet providers at the table and for their benefit. They wanted immunity, and this bill gives it to them.

"The telecom companies simply have to produce a piece of paper we already know exists, resulting in immediate dismissal. That’s not accountability. Loopholes and judicial theater don’t do our Fourth Amendment rights justice. In the end, this is politics. This bill does nothing to keep Americans safe and is a constitutional farce.

"The process by which this deal has come about has been as secretive as the warrantless wiretapping program it is seeking to legitimize. While members and organizations who would seek to fiercely protect the civil liberties of Americans have been denied a seat at the table, one wonders how present the powerful telecom lobby has been.

"Leadership should be leading to protect the Constitution, not bowing to pressure from Republicans, the White House, and the telecommunications companies.

"The ACLU is asking Congress, as the final minutes tick by, to stand up and do the right thing."

All that for nothing. No wonder why this Congress has a 23% approval rating. Tell Congress to defeat this amnesty bill, NOW!!!

Rep. John Spratt: 1-202-225-5501
Rep. Jim Clyburn: 1-202-225-3315
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: 1-202-225-0100
Rep. Hoyer: 1-202-225-4131

Double Standards based on gender: Bad for ALL of us
Topic: Double standards
Read all of what Ren had posted.

NASCAR sued by ex-employee
Topic: Assholes in the news

[cross-posted from Aiken Area Progressive]

DAYTONA BEACH -- Mauricia Grant, 32, has sued the number 2 sport in America for a quarter-billion dollars, saying that she has was discriminated against because of both her race and gender, was sexually harassed and slut-shamed, and that she was wrongully dismissed in October 2007. Here is some of what she said:

"I loved it. It was great, exciting adrenaline-filled job where I worked with fast cars and the best drivers in the world. But there was an ongoing daily pattern of harassment. It was the nature of the people I worked with, the people who ran it, it trickled down from the top.

It's just the way things are in the garage."

In the lawsuit, Mrs. Grant says that she was referred to as "Nappy Headed Mo" and "Queen Sheba". She was also frightened by one official who made references to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

That's not all. Mrs. Grant says that she was also subjected to sexual advances from male co-workers, two of whom exposed their penises to her and made graphic, lewd jokes.

In all, 57 incidents of sexist and racist allegations are listed in a New York area District court.

Benedict P. Morelli is Mrs. Grant's lawyer. He compared Mrs. Grant's fight to Anucha Browne Sanders, who won $11,500,000.00 in a sex harassment lawsuit ironically enough, in October 2007, the same period in which Mrs. Grant was terminated.

Joe Balash, the Nationwide Series director, and assistant Series director Mike Dolan (no relation to the idiot who owns Cablevision and MSG) were among 23 NASCAR officials named as defendants.

As a fan of the sport, I am thoroughly appalled at what these men were doing to her. I hope that Brian France will make some major changes in the future to prevent another incident like this from ever happening again. Seems like every sport has asshats in them nowadays.

This is what true love looks like
Topic: LGBTQ

[Cross-posted from Aiken Area Progressive]

 

SAN FRANCISCO -- As of 8:01 p.m. EDT, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were offically the first LGBT couple married in the state of California. The lesbian couple have been together for at least 51 years.

Congradulations and good luck to Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Lyon and all of the other couples across the Golden State who will given the right to marry the person they love, regardless of sexual orientation.

Jovan's Hot 106 (106-87)

Since Maxim has its "Hot 100" and other feminists have their "Real Hot 100", I've decided to do a "Hot 106":  the 106 sexiest (and badass women).  This is the bottom 20 women on this list.

106.  Ellen DeGeneres: this woman dresses in men's clothes and still looks hot.

105.  Pat Benatar: this classic rock singer may have sex appeal, but she also puts men on notice.  Think "Sex as a Weapon", a top 40 song from 1986.

104.  Beyoncé: she would have been higher, had it not been for her clothing line trying to cater to underage girls.

103.  Lil' Kim: still fresh out of jail, this hip-hop artist made a splash in 2001 cover of Patti Labelle's "Lady Marmalade".

102.  Carly Ormerod:  00 is magic at University of Kentucky.

101.  Katherine Heigl: wish we would see more of her after 2009.  But after slamming Shonda Rimes, don't count on it.

100.  C. Vivian Stringer: This Rutgers coach smacked down Don Imus and his sexist remarks about her players.  That alone makes her hot in my book.

99.  Tila Tequila: The queen of myspace is also the queen of real dating.

98.  Kelly Finglass: she is the director of the Dallas Cowboys' cheerleaders, aka America's cheerleaders.

97.  Rachael Ray: this chef/talk show host is an Iron Chef.

96.  Charlize Theron: she hasn't been in the spotlight lately, but she has been a strong supporter for LGBT rights.

95.  Whoopi Goldberg: The View's newest person has been laying the smack down on the pro-birth movement.  She made Hasselbeck an example.

94.  Gloria Allred: the mother takes on anyone and everyone who harasses and abuses women and other traditionally beleaguered groups.  Hotness, indeed!

93.  America Ferrera:  She is not an ugly person.  Her critics are.

92.  Jennifer Love Hewitt: calling out the pro-anorexic asshats is hot.

91.  Paris Hilton: nothing much to say.  That's hot! Then again...

90.  Lindsay Lohan: well...

89.  Kim Kardashian: a victim of slut-shaming in my opinion with the sex tape and all.

88.  Kim Gordon: wonder why she is ageless?

87.  Cat Osterman: this softball player also has mad game.