Author’s note: Starting today, I will be co-authoring a series of columns called “Point to the idiot” with Jon Sanders of the John Locke Foundation (www.JohnLocke.org) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The purpose of this series is to highlight some of the most idiotic people (and groups of people) in higher education. Often, our material will come from college newspapers. And, often, it will be archived later on my own website (http://www.DrAdams.org). We hope you enjoy the series. It’s really a good way for us to vent all of our sarcastic comments before we go home to our wives (who get sick of hearing about campus politics). Here goes:
Jon: How’s it going? I wanted to write to tell you about the Sex Toy Box Social recently sponsored by the group Penn for Choice. The fundraiser was organized to benefit the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Medical Fund. Penn for Choice President Leah Heifetz thought that an event with a sex-toy theme would be a good way to provide direct funding for low-income women and teens to have abortions. It is important for pro-choice activists to make sure that really young woman and really poor women are having lots of abortions. And, in order to do so, it’s always good to get plenty of support from local sex shops.
A demonstration of how to use these sex toys was run by a sex-toy store called “The Mood.” They sell sex toys, lingerie and “how-to” videos. They also like to come to college campuses to show students how to use them. College students who are well-versed in trigonometry and chemistry usually have difficulty reading sex-toy instructions. But that’s not true at Penn where they have outside support.
I certainly hope that my next speech at Penn will attract as many as 150 people. That’s how many were in Houston Hall for the Sex Toy Box Social. There was food. There were drinks. There was dancing. But the best part of the social was the raffle to win a Bucket O’ Love, which included candy G-string underwear and “body butter.”
The Penn student newspaper quoted a freshman as saying that the event “gives a dignity to sexuality” and “helps to highlight the power of female sexuality.” I’ve heard the same about chanting the names of one’s sex organs. But, somehow, I just can’t lace on a pair of boots and chant “penis, penis” in front of a large audience. That’s why these ladies are really making headway in the feminist revolution.
I don’t know whether the collection of vibrators, lubricants and items like the “Kama Sutra Spinner Game” will still be there when I visit Penn. Nonetheless, one can only hope. Are you up for another road trip?
Mike: Things are well here. I think it’s neat how feminists can set aside their bug-eyed hatred of business long enough to bring entrepreneurs in to peddle their wares for a cause, if the cause is even more abortions. Seems abortion makes for strange bedfellows. Which it should, I suppose, since strange bedfellows leads to abortions—but presumably not enough, which is why kids need to buy sex toys at Penn.
There’s one thing you mentioned that I find confusing. Do feminists really need coaching in how to masturbate? Not to be crass, but isn’t that the sort of thing that just comes naturally?
I might take you up on your road trip offer. But I propose we start in Chapel Hill. On Feb. 13, UNC-Chapel Hill’s “Feminist Students United” and “V-Day” will team up to present “Sex-travaganza.” This will be “a fun and informative sex-positive party!” Here’s more about it: “Presentation on fun and safe sex techniques given by the Center for Healthy Student Behaviors, make your own Vagina Swirl to eat, Safe Sex Party Bags to take home, test your knowledge in the Sex Quiz and win tantalizing prizes from Cherry Pie.”
Nothing against Penn and the so-called box social, but did it have Vagina Swirls? For my money, it’s just not a sex-positive party without Vagina Swirls. So long as feminists are behind the swirls, that is—if a fraternity did it, it would be sexually degrading to women.
If there’s time, we might want to hang around Chapel Hill for the Feb. 15 lecture on “Everything Your Vagina Wants to Know.” Frankly, I don’t think the planned lecture is as all-encompassing as the title makes it sound. It’s just going to “include an overview of different contraception methods available.” What if participants’ vaginas want to know why they’re stuck with idiots who think they’re saving the world, one Vagina Swirl at a time?
Wow, Jon! That was really deep. I’m going to have to think about that while I’m finishing The Bridges of Madison County. Do they sell vagina swirls at the Illinois State Fair?
To be continued next week…
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Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. Mike Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. Mike Adams was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, Mike Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. Mike Adams also played for free beer.
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Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.
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After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.
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Today Mike Adams enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. Mike Adams is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. Mike Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008.
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