The Fiamengo File: A Return of True Liberal Education

When I first learned of The Fiamengo File I had high hopes indeed. Then the first episode was issued. My hopes were surpassed. This is a truly great educational series of videos.

The Fiamengo File is the cutting edge of inquiry and exposure of authoritarianism and systematic academic fraud in The USA and Canada.

Professor Janice Fiamengo is, in my view, a stellar example of integrity personified.

In her courage and intellectual clarity serves as a role model for ever girl or boy who would strive to live a life of good character and creative bravery.

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Following are some nuggets and gems culled from the videos:

1) “Why I am an Anti-Feminist” - Fiamengo File, Episode 1

Aug. 13, 2015 (12:08)

►“The dishonesty and hypocrisy of the feminist movement deserve to be denounced every day.” (1:20)

► “It is a paranoid fantasy to pretend that our culture condones rape.” (3:04)

►”It is clear that the feminist agenda is incompatible with the academic ideal of truth and the social ideal of justice for all.” (11:02)

►“It is time people of good conscience took a stand against this corruption of our universities.” (11:40)

2) “Roush V”- Fiamengo File, Episode 2

Aug. 20, 2015 (6:50)

► “Feminist hatred is the Siamese twin of feminist victim ideology. Its about the power to silence those who dissent.” (5:16)

3) “Votes for Women”- Fiamengo File, Episode 3

Aug. 27, 2015 (6:09)

► “One of major effects of feminism has been to create a false narrative of history.” (0:17)

► “Feminists have rewritten history and we’ve bought the story.” (4:53)

► “Its time to get real about history and to stop justifying feminism’s exclusionary ideology.” (5:24)

4) “The Empathy Gap”- Fiamengo File, Episode 4

Sep. 3, 2015 (5:56)

► “This is the genius of feminism, that it took an already existing concern for women and exploited it to women’s advantage, all the while pretending feminism opposed everything traditional society meant for women.” (4:44)

► “Let’s close the gender empathy gap. We can’t claim to care about true equality until we do.” (5:30)

5) “The Safe Space Ploy”- Fiamengo File, Episode 5

Sep. 10, 2015 (9:11)

► “The buzz phrase on university campuses used to shame and exclude heretics is ‘safe space.’” (0:28)

► “The fight over safe space isn’t really about safety at all but about power. The so-called marginalized are a bold and belligerent lot who have been spectacularly successful in terrorizing their opposition at no cost to themselves.” (2:46)

► “They are following a time-honored script, written by that guru of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, whose essay 'Repressive Tolerance,' should be required reading for anyone attempting to understand campus politics today.” (3:42)

► “That Puritan longing to burn heretics has always been most evident in the young.” (6:07)

► “Herein lies the real source of our malaise: the widespread collapse of the commitment to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge.” (7:40)

6) “The Monstrous Male Gaze” - Fiamengo File, Episode 6

Sep. 17, 2015 (12:06)

► “How did we become a society in which a disciplinary tribunal is convened whenever a woman says she feels creepy?” (6:40)

► “That’s what the feminist regime wants to put in place for men, the feminist panopticon, an awareness by men that doing pretty much anything a woman doesn’t like can get them into serious life-altering trouble. Such a situation is bound to make men feel  wary, uncomfortable, uncertain, fearful, even paranoid, ad that is precisely how feminists want them to feel.” (11:06)

► “The feminist gaze sees the world through grotesquely distorted lens, and the more we allow it to determine law or policies the more repressive the impact will be.” (11:33)

7) “The University of Toronto, a Feminist Campus" - Fiamengo File, Episode 7

Sep. 24, 2015 (12:49)

► “When men, rather than women, are victims of violence, their gender isn’t news. And the only time femaleness is not news is when the woman is the perpetrator of violence.” (5:34)

8) “Feminism Wants Your Soul" - Fiamengo File, Episode 8”

Oct. 1, 2015 (10:37)

► “It [feminism] makes you lie – to yourself and others.”

9) “Kampus Kangaroo Court" - Fiamengo File, Episode 9

Oct. 8, 2015 (12:30)

► “We do young women no favors in encouraging them to take no care for their own well-being and then to betray others and themselves with self-justifying lies and fabricated innocence.” (11:33) 

10) “Masculinity Studies by Michael Kimmel”- Fiamengo File, Episode 10

Oct. 15, 2015 (9:44)

► “The case of ‘Masculinity Studies,’as it currently exists, disproves the hope that  that so-called ‘moderate feminism’ is salvageable and can be made to accommodate men’s issues. The fact is that when you start with false premises – ‘women’s oppression under patriarchy,’ ‘gender as a social construct’ – you end up with a bad theory …” (0:48)

11) “The Man-Shaming Project”- Fiamengo File, Episode 11

Oct. 22, 2015 (14:09)

► “It seems that no matter how men express their heterosexual maleness there’s a feminist influence campaign to tell them its wrong.” (1:00)

► “It is a strange way to go about encouraging male tenderness to insist on their insensitivity and thugishness.” (2:51)

► “Frankly, I find these campaigns more than just annoying, irritating or just silly. They’re evidence of a deep cultural sickness, in my opinion. (8:12)

► “I myself am dumbfounded by the increasing inhumanity of feminist claims and by the seemingly widespread public acquiescence to them.” (13:00)

12) “Do Women Want Equality?”- Fiamengo File, Episode 12

Oct. 29, 2015 (13:19)

► “With no standard of comparison because most women don’t know, or don’t care to know, the experience of men many women perceieve any form of unpleasantness in their woirk lives as gender bias, whether its a critical boss – or a poor performance review. And this is understandable; most people given the chance will prefer to believe themselves unfairly treated rather than to admit inadequacy. Add to that the feminist world view that male prejudice is the the sea in which women are forced to swim and you’ve got a lot of women pumped up about injustice and keen for government to make more laws to combat it” (1:38)

13) “Women In The Military” - Fiamengo File, Episode 13

Nov. 5, 2015 (10:06)

► “Women in the military … Its one of the public conversations in which the flagrant hypocracy of mainstream feminist orthodoxy is starkly revealed.” (1:35)

► “The fact that ability isn’t the first thing everybody mentions when discussing women in the military forces demonstrates how deeply the rot of feminist egalitarianism has eaten into the fabric of our society. I, for one, do not want to live in an egalitarian society. I want to live in a merit-based society. I want exceptional women to succeed, to contribute their gifts. But I do not want a fake equality established by government dictate; and I’m tired of hearing from women and their feminist allies about how we have to do more to make sure women succeed. Men have always paid the bigger price and have contributed more as a class than women.  And in the tolerant, humane society we created in the West, men often allowed women to forget that fact. It is appropriate and just for women to remember it.” (8:38)

14) “Great Men Under Siege" - Fiamengo File, Episode 14

Nov. 12, 2015 (14:25)

►”This ignorant animus against men starts in the public schools and spreads through higher education, the entertainment industry, the justice system and the mass media, widely colluded in by both men and women. I sometimes think we’re in the grip of a mass cultural neurosis, so binding and severe that only the complete destruction of our civilization will wake us to its dimensions. There could be no more certain way to guarantee our doom than, as that jackass Jack Stafford advocates, to, quote: ‘do away with manhood.’ On the contrary, we’d better start recognizing – and applauding it.” (12:02)

15) “International Men's Day 2015" - Fiamengo File, Episode 15

Nov. 19, 2015 (15:01)

►”Women, as a class, have it very good; men, as a class, deserve daily gratitude. And if we could put an end to manhood – by which I’m assuming Stafford meant such traditionally masculine traits such as risk-tasking, competitiveness, physical courage, problem-solving, rationality, self-reliance, daring curiosity – if we could put an end to all that, we’d never cease regretting it.(1:57)

16) “Free Yoga, And Other Crimes" - Fiamengo File, Episode 16

Nov. 26, 2015 (11:30)

► “Those wishing to understand the theoretical source of the present outbreak may wish to conselt a book by Brazilian Paulo Friere, titled Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which was first published in Portuguese in 1968 and translated into English in 1970. Widely studied in teacher training programs in North America the book initiated what is has come to be called critical pedagogy, and has had an enormous malign influence on schools and universities across the West. (7:21)

►”What appear to be time-wasting antics that distract from learning, what appear to be counterproductive acts of insubordination and thuggishness on the part of students, misguided and willfuly distorting declarations by student leaders, and craven gestures of conciliation and anti-intellectual complicity on the part of teachers and administrators, all make sense in Freirian terms, as necessary resistance. What we are witnessing on university campuses across North America is not by accident, or incidentally about the rejection of reason and the rejection of the Western intellectual inheritance. Its central object is to destroy the past, and remake the present through the practice of the raised fist. Ceaseless disruption, unproveable claims of abuse, whimsical acts of repression, like the cancellation of yoga, grandstanding, incivility, threats, name-calling, persecution, white self-hatred and groupthink: and all of it applauded and catered to by the intellectual elite. Thanks to Paulo Friere, and his many followers, we have front row seats at the collapse of the Western university coming soon to a campus near you.” (9:44)

17) “The Myth Of Sexual Harassment" - Fiamengo File, Episode 17

Dec. 3, 2015 (13:43)

► “So with this so-called study, based on misleading questions and the manipulation of data, anyone reading it with an open mind would have to conclude that the sexual harassment crisis is pure invention.” (4:30)

► “What we see in these reports is a very disturbing willingness on the part of so-called experts to create a false picture of a supposedly widespread problem and to encourage women to disregard basic commonsense morality in order to launch complaints against their male colleagues even when their conscience tells them that what happened was at least partially their own doing or so trivial as to be not worth bothering about.” (8:48)

► “If I were a young man now I’d get myself a law degree specializing in labor and employment and prepare to take on this anti-sex, anti-human, anti-love Leviathan. Until we’ve got an army of anti-feminist lawyers  fighting in our corner things will only get worse. Its time to take back our offices, classrooms and boardrooms in the name of sanity and common sense. Let’s make the workplace safe for men.” (12:41)

[References to: Toronto Sun (0:51); Toronto Star (6:30); Shachi Kurl (5:26); Cathy Laird (6:08); Kevin Robinson (Toronto labor lawyer) (7:25); Julia Becker & Janet Swim (sp?) (9:32)]

18) “Because It’s 2015” - Fiamengo File, Episode 18

Dec. 10, 2015 (15:00)

► “What many of us hoped back in the 1980s might be a radical but temporary measure is being made into a permanent, never-to-be-questioned feature of our society. And this is, of course, how utopian movements like feminism always operate. No matter what is done for women, no matter how many special perks and rewards, there will always be some way to claim, it doesn’t have to be a logical way, that more is needed.” (13:19)

19) “FSU Feminists”- Fiamengo File, Episode 19

Dec. 17, 2015 (17:11)

20) “Father Christmas”- Fiamengo File, Episode 20

Dec. 24, 2015 (10:51)

SEASON 2

21) “Female White Knights”- Fiamengo File, Episode 21

Jan. 21, 2016 (13:45)

22) “Feminist Terminology 1: Gender” - Fiamengo File, Episode 22

Jan. 28, 2016 (15:11)

23) “Feminist Terminology 2: Lived Experience” - Fiamengo File, Episode 23

Feb. 4, 2016 (12:22)

24) “Feminist Terminology 3: Privilege” - Fiamengo File, Episode 24

Feb. 11, 2016 (15:48)

25) “The Revolutionary Stupid Movement”- Fiamengo File, Episode 25

Feb. 18, 2016 (12:47)

26) “Feminist Terminology 4: Structural Violence” - Fiamengo File, Episode 26

Feb. 25, 2016 (9:55)

27) “Feminist Terminology 5: Microaggression - Fiamengo File, Episode 27

Mar.3, 2016 (14:28)

28) “Persecution at KSU” - Fiamengo File, Episode 28

Mar. 10, 2016 (30:27)

29) “Feminism, A Victim Mentality Disorder” - Fiamengo File, Episode 29

Mar. 17, 2016 (17:50)

30) “Women in Astronomy” - Fiamengo File, Episode 30

Mar. 24, 2016 (17:38)

31) “Women’s Studies Must Die”- Fiamengo File, Episode 31

Mar. 31, 2016 (15:02)

►"The money being spent on them -- on programs that miseducate our youth and that contribute to the rot that pervades our justice system, our social services and our media -- that's money that could be far better spent on real academic subjects that do not harm and actually benefit society." (14:32)

32) “Women’s Studies is Not Scholarship” - Fiamengo File, Episode 32

Apr. 7, 2016 (9:18)

33) “Interdisciplinary. Another Word for Emptiness” - Fiamengo File, Episode 33

Apr. 14, 2016 (11:24)

34) “Cost of Gender Studies” - Fiamengo File, Episode 34

Apr. 21, 2016 (10:18)

35) “The Ghomeshi Verdict” - Fiamengo File, Episode 35

Apr. 28, 2016 (21:32)

36) “The Gender Equity Boondoggle” - Fiamengo File, Episode 36

May 5, 2016 (14:10)

37) “Professors in Love” - Fiamengo File, Episode 37

May 13, 2016 (11:42)

38) “Climate of Fear” - Fiamengo File, Episode 38

May 19, 2016 (13:49)

39) “Women Overvalue Themselves” - Fiamengo File, Episode 39

May 26, 2016 (18:42)

40) “Sons of Feminism” - Fiamengo File, Episode 40

Jun. 2, 2016 (15:26)

41) “The Stanford Rape Case” - Fiamengo File, Episode 41

Jun. 16, 2016 (18:39)

SEASON 3

42) “Feminist Mass Hysteria” - Fiamengo File, Episode 42

Sep. 8, 2016 (18:31)

► “Reading news stories about our culture of rape, misogyny, objectification and sexual harassment, I often feel that I am crazy, or that some significant portion of society is. Is it possible that feminism is actually a form of mass hysteria?” (0:01)

► “Surely, this is far more than a rational movement that is occasionally taken too far, as some say. Surely, this movement is irrational to its core.” (2:37)

43) “The Mandi Gray Rape Case”- Fiamengo File, Episode 43

Sep. 15, 2016 (11:29)

44) “This is Feminist Justice”- Fiamengo File, Episode 44

Sep. 22, 2016 (12:47)

► “According to Justice Zucker have been so oppressed by patriarchy that they cannot actually say what they mean or act with integrity and the law can and should be warped by a judge to accommodate any woman’s story of victimhood.” (10:59)

► “This is what feminist law looks like: hideous.” (12:32)

45) “Man As Sperm Donor”- Fiamengo File, Episode 45

Sep. 29, 2016 (9:58)

46) "The Unisex University" Oct. 6, 2016 10:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvfWEkZSPYw
47) "A Treason of the Intellectuals" Oct. 13, 2016 14:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPmULGmggGE
48) "Why Academics Bow to the Mob" Oct. 20, 2016 14:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ond25Bnc-I8
49) "Academic Totalitarianism" Oct. 27, 2016 16:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoXlTGrJHCU
50) "Men Need Not Apply" Nov. 3, 2016 12:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjB83vcWhCY
51) "Black Women in Academia" Nov. 10, 2016 10:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr61zHDbrgY
52) "Jordan Peterson and Free Speech"  Apr. 27, 2017 20:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEbC5Py1qoI
53) "When Feminists Control the Past" Nov. 24, 2016 12:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIXjDFmC440
54) "Save Us From Social Justice" Dec. 1, 2016 11:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2dOw7nIlw0
55) "The Scandal of 'Human Rights'" Dec. 19, 2016 13:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbP2MCtWsvo
56) "What If Men Are Smarter" Mar. 30, 2017 20:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FPe3U8mj8
57) "The Masculinity Confession Booth" Mar. 30, 2017 10:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr61zHDbrgY
58) "Sons of Feminism Update" Apr. 6, 2017 11:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq_8vAiHGcM
59) "Feminists Weigh in on Weight" Apr. 13, 2017 12:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2S-eJQvR-A
60) "Instructors Getting Dumber By the Day" Apr. 20, 2017 12:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr61zHDbrgY
61) "Philistia: aka McMaster University vs. Jordan Peterson" Apr. 27, 2017 16:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNkUWmCRhuE
62) "When 'Survivors' Teach Rape Culture" May 4, 2017 12:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY46oEC8Fww
63) "You Deny My Right to Exist"  May 11, 2017 11:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRix9prT5M
64) "The Hazards of Defending Trans-Racialism" May 25, 2017 22:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr61zHDbrgY
65) "When a Divinity School Goes SJW" Jun. 1, 2017 13:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqztRaKeMuw
66) "How to Write a Gender Theory Paper" Jun. 8, 2017 15:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IFL21ZS_3U
67) "Shaming Men About Housework" Jun. 15, 2017 8:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C69ruNWO7PM
68) "Teaching Students to Snitch" Jun. 22, 2017 8:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EwD2ShYBhA
69) "Toxic Masculinity and Suicide" Jun. 27, 2017 11:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6sWtI3FGU
70) "Poor Me Feminism" Jul. 16, 2017 16:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUc0uYrfyHc
71) "Professor Dennis Gouws: A Case Study in Feminist Harassment" Aug. 7, 2017 18:51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KOSFkZ6G7Y
72) "Are Men Responsible for Ending Sexual Violence?" Dec. 20, 2017 20:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtjMyoQiFu8
73) "My Human Rights Tribunal Story" Mar. 12, 2018 11:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CulP7-XfRWM
74) "Who is Rick Mehta?" Mar. 21, 2018 10:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRix9prT5M
75) "Are Universities About Truth or Accepted Ideas?" Mar. 31, 2018 21:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjUyWNFOT7A
76) "#MeToo Comes for Doctors" Apr. 3, 2018 15:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdxKscHHPVc
77) "Then They Came for the Poets" Apr. 13, 2018 9:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRqUZHXe1kY
78) "The Ugly Face of Carcereal Feminism" Apr. 16, 2018 12:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUUavtvWrTo
79) "Can a License Plate Promote Rape?" May 1, 2018 11:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpRLP9v7KLw
80) "Why Do Some Men Hate?" May 8, 2018 9:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2b8otU1ntY
81) "The Legal Devaluation of Men's Lives" May 23, 2018 11:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPEdF8TIc0
82) "This is Feminist Policing" Jun. 11, 2018 11:51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYykZac43bY
83) "The End of Judicial Impartiality: Feminists Come for Judges" Jun. 14, 2018 11:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-9_0TaOZos
84) "Why Can't We Hate Men" Jun. 19, 2018 7:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaa64Ol_wTg
85) "Feminists Lose Another Trial" Jul. 12, 2018 16:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2CBdu9qGU4&t=11s

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