Working on a longer piece today, so to get something up quickly, let’s talk a bit about the phenomenon of aposematism in nature:

The function of aposematism is to prevent attack, by warning potential predators that the prey animal has defences such as being unpalatable or poisonous. The easily detected warning is a primary defence mechanism, and the non-visible defences are secondary. Aposematic signals are primarily visual, using bright colours and high-contrast patterns such as stripes.

Many have noticed this “warning sign” phenomenon in the characteristic costumes of Third Wave feminists of the “Social Justice Warrior” (SJW) variety — weirdly colored hairstyles, facial piercings, tattoos, etc. Quite often, we find this aposematic appearance accompanied by obesity (because “fat feminism” is an actual movement) and LGBT sexuality, so that a clichéd type can be discerned in the vicinity of “social justice” activism. Strange appearance is a way for disgruntled misfits to turn their maladjusted anti-social attitudes into a visible display, so everybody who sees them knows how much they hate Mommy and Daddy.

“Only when we recognize that ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’ are made-up categories, invented to control human beings and violently imposed, can we truly understand the nature of sexism. . . .

“Questioning gender . . . is an essential part of the feminism that has sustained me through two decades of personal and political struggle. In the end, feminists and the LGBT community have this in common: We’re all gender traitors.”

— Laurie Penny, “How to Be a Genderqueer Feminist,” 2015

This kind of “gender” weirdness is clearly related to the breakdown of family, cultural decline and rampant immorality in post-Christian society, reflecting what Ashton Blackwell has called “Dark Feminism”:

These young women think they are “feminists” because feminism appeals to their frustrations, insecurities, and their bitterness over being used for casual sex. . . .

[Y]oung women in general have become darker and more bitter, and with good reason . . .

The dress style of the alternative scene — piercings, black apparel, combat boots, and surly expressions — broadcasts, “Stay away from me, I’m dangerous.” . . .

Septum piercings and unnatural hair colors have become so common that they have lost their whiff of punk subversion . . . The witchy, neo-pagan look is trendy . . .

More than a half-century into the Sexual Revolution, many young people have become disoriented by the pervasive social anarchy in a Culture of Narcissism that has renounced God and worships the sacred Self. Because they are unable to ignore their own flaws, however, many self-obsessed adolescents become disillusioned and are plunged into existential despair — “Nobody will ever love me!” — that in turn produces inchoate rage and makes them easily recruited to the Cult of Social Justice.

Well, I could continue that lecture, but this is just a quick post for your morning reading while I work on a much longer piece, and so I guess it’s time to explain why I was thinking about this subject today.

You know what's sad? To see a girl who actually wouldn't look bad were it not for her SJW/mental-patient/facial-piercing aesthetic. — FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 2, 2016

Here's a suggestion for an "aesthetic" no Tumblr feminist ever attempted: NORMAL. SANE. NO WRETCHED TATTOOS. NO PIERCINGS. NO WEIRD HAIR. — FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 2, 2016

Until I started studying radical feminism, I never thought of “normal” as an achievement. Teenage rebellion is nothing new, but many young people are now going off the rails permanently, deliberately wrecking themselves in ways that make it unlikely they will ever fully recover. It is easy to dismiss this as a “fringe” phenomenon — the pierced septum, the strange hair, the deranged look in their eyes — and especially to laugh at the references to witchcraft, astrology and other occult obsessions. Unfortunately, however, these are real human beings, and not fictional TV characters. When you talk to the parents of these freaky misfits, as I occasionally do, you hear tales of a confounding mystery. Their child was a seemingly normal teenager, doing well in school and extracurricular activities until, quite suddenly, they began acting out in bizarre ways.

Perhaps there is an entirely secular explanation. Psychologists and other social scientists can probably provide useful insights into these eruptions of adolescent craziness, but I think it unwise to ignore the spiritual dimensions of this problem. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . . God gave them over to a reprobate mind . . . disobedient to parents . . . without natural affection” (Romans 1:22, 28, 30-31).

“Ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5) was the false promise of Satan’s original lie … https://t.co/C7xNUR51oc #tcot pic.twitter.com/Rr6tQeqdUG — FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) April 1, 2016

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