Thursday, October 22, 2015

Annie Teriba

Annie Teriba is a lesbian student activist of Nigerian descent at Oxford. She has spoken out passionately against rape, but publicly apologised recently for having had non-consensual sex with another woman:
Miss Teriba had been a darling of the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) — a separate body to the Union debating society — which oversees student issues for the university.

She spoke for OUSU with considerable vigour as Oxford’s ‘lesbian, gay, bi and transsexual women’s representative’ at a countrywide level during meetings of the National Union of Students.

One of the issues she spoke most passionately about was the problem of sexual aggression against women. Indeed, she had unflinchingly asserted the wildly controversial (and utterly unproven) statistic that ‘one woman in four’ at Oxford can expect to be raped.

The interesting thing about this is that lesbian feminists usually claim that rape is caused by the patriarchal desire of men to control women through violence. If that is so, then there would be no reason for Annie Teriba to rape another woman as she has no investment in the patriarchy but claims to be an opponent of it. In other words, Annie Teriba is helping to disprove her own theory.

Another interesting thing: Annie Teriba is yet another radical feminist who feels abandoned by her father. She is in the company here of feminist luminaries such as Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Jill Johnston, Eva Cox and Rebecca West.

Annie Teriba has written a poem about her feelings of paternal abandonment, a poem in which she blames white men for her black father not being there for her. It is titled "Interring. Or, White Boy, What Have You Done With My Father's Bones" and includes he lines "no, this is how do black fathers mistake home for shackle; and wade?" and "Black men have always been sacrifice to their paperface gods" and "who will teach me to love myself when my father is a village in ruins?".

The poem does, it seems to me, show some talent, but the content of it gives away not only an offensive racial politics (the politics of white blame), but also points to personal psychological issues as a driving force in Annie Teriba's politics ("how I can be empty and yet so full of grief").

In radical leftist student politics there is an element of personal psychological disorder. You can see this in an incident from earlier this year in which organisers of a student feminist conference asked people not to clap in case it triggered anxieties amongst those attending but to instead use jazz hands to show each other support.

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  1. The story says

    "In her statement, which was released on Facebook, she wrote: ‘At this year’s NUS Black Students’ Conference, I had sex with someone. The other party later informed me that the sex was not consensual.
    Miss Teriba had been a darling of the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) — a separate body to the Union debating society — which oversees student issues for the university
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    Miss Teriba had been a darling of the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) — a separate body to the Union debating society — which oversees student issues for the university

    ‘I failed to properly establish consent before every act. I apologise sincerely and profoundly for my actions. In failing to clarify that the person consented to our entire encounter, I have caused serious, irreparable harm.’

    She went on to confess to another incident, which happened i
    n a nightclub during her first year at university, ‘where I had touched somebody in a sexual manner without their consent’."

    I wonder why she made the confession. I can think of 3 reasons - she sincerely believes in these principles (even though she appears t have broken them at least twice), she wanted to pre-empt these allegations being made against her, or it is all part of the psycho-drama she is enacting.



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    1. Good question. Her confession didn't do her much good amongst her feminist peers as she made the excuse that she had a drinking problem which then led to accusations that she was trying to justify what she did. I suspect your "psycho-drama" hypothesis may have something to do with it.

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  2. in which organisers of a student feminist conference asked people not to clap in case it triggered anxieties amongst those attending

    That's priceless. Obviously universities are not a safe space for such people - perhaps they'd be more comfortable in a pre-school kindergarten with lots of cuddly toys. Although you'd have to be careful - teddy bears might trigger anxieties.

    As dissident feminist Rene Denfeld pointed out in her 1995 book The New Victorians feminism has infantilised women and rendered them more helpless than Victorian women ever were.

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    1. It's clearly disordered. What I find odd is that a person suffering from such a disorder should think that they are in a good position to reform society. They need to focus first on healing themselves; then on discovering the higher good within their own nature, society and reality; and then forming values or principles to help order their own societies. It is senseless for the mentally ill to take the leading role in shaping society.

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  3. She is caught in a trap that is sad and predictable. That she made such an apology, even a preemptive apology, only serves to make her situation worse. History should tell her that making apologies directed at these SJW-type people is like blood in the water. They sense the grievous wound to moral authority and see her as easy prey and a great opportunity to publicly signify their own moral bona fides.

    She probably did no wrong. Consent was withdrawn after the fact, I'm sure. Just another slaughter on the altar of Feminism.

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    1. apologies directed at these SJW-type people is like blood in the water

      Yes, she was smacked down fiercely by her "sisters".

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