IF YOU have not tuned in to Guy Sr. over at What Women Never Hear recently, you may be interested in his latest efforts to educate the masses about sex differences. He offers a new list. I am confused by the first item on the list, but much of the rest makes sense. Here it is:

1. Natural self-interest motivates everyone. Men see it as individual authority to act. Women have difficulty separating self-interest from selfishness.
2. Men honor courage. Women honor compassion.
3. Women understand what men say and do, but they don’t like it. Men don’t understand what women say and do, but they accept it until they’re suckered.
4. Men go more for full disclosure in apparel than person. Women go more for full disclosure in person than apparel. (more…)

CAN a moral revolution ever come from the upper classes of society? This is an interesting question. The wealthy, it seems, are generally too distracted, too cushioned from the consequences of de-moralizing forces. Philip Rieff, in his book The Triumph of the Therapeutic, writes: Moral reform, no less than social, must push up from below.... [T]he cultivated, with their high arts and literature, are too comfortable to deploy righteous indignation; and the lowly are sunk too far  into their peculiar resorts of comfort. Moralizing belongs to the ambitious middle range of the Western social structure, if it may be properly located anywhere at all. Not class position, but creedal preoccupation, as an alternative to refinement and aesthetic perception, is the driving force of moralizing movements. In all the writings of Calvin there is scarcely a reference to the beauty of the landscape surrounding Geneva. He was far too busy regulating the manners of Genevans, including the exact length of the ladies' skirts.

THE ELDEST DAUGHTER of Al and Tipper Gore recently separated from her husband of twelve years, according to People. Karenna Gore Schiff, 36, has three children with her husband, Andrew “Drew” Schiff. Imagine watching as both your parents and grandparents divorce at the same time. For a child, that is a personal apocalypse.

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KEVIN STAY writes:

I am uncertain how badly the various election results from yesterday will further erode an already rapidly vanishing traditionalist mindset. But no one should have any doubt this latest blow to conservatism was dealt at the hand of one Juan McStain (aka John McCain) when he reached down to pluck Sarah Palin from relative obscurity and thrust her upon us. Now, as then, no “conservative” with ratings to safeguard will dare say, “Boo.” After yesterday Carly Fiorina is perhaps the best new poster child of this driven “conservative” woman we are all expected to embrace and march forward with to a bright new Republican future.  (more…)

THE AMERICAN food consumer is ignorant, lazy and infatuated with novelty, all of which makes him an easy target of marketing. Nothing exemplifies this more than the enormous sums Americans spend on breakfast cereals. People say they cannot possibly live on one income per family, but they cart huge boxes of expensive prefab grains home from the supermarket, tossing money to the breeze and subjecting their families to dietary impoverishment. (more…)

ANDREA BERRY writes:

Please accept my heartfelt thanks in doing this blog. I am a quasi-housewife. Meaning, I was a housewife up until the point that I returned to being a part-time teacher so my husband could finish grad school. We both have plans of me being an all-the-time housewife in the future. Nevertheless, even with me outside of the home I live by and uphold the principles that many of the readers of your blog do. (more…)

MARY TALBOT writes:

My name is Mary, and I am the younger sister of one of your readers. She introduced me to your blog, and what I have learned from it has changed my outlook on life. I am 15 years old and just finished my freshman year of high school. The Thinking Housewife has taught me so much, and I have fallen in love with the idea of being feminine! This approach to femininity has strengthened my spiritual life in beautiful ways. I learned about dressing modestly, but it never came to mind to dress feminine. I learned that T-shirts and jeans just don’t cut it when it comes to being modest. (more…)

  JOHN LOCKHARD writes: I'm very fond of your blog and glad you started it. It's taken a long, long time to accept that my formerly-unconscious desire to marry a housewife instead of a career woman is fine and normal, although counter-revolutionary. It adds to the difficulty that my sister is living a role-reversed marriage. What I want from a wife is what women offered men for, oh, just the 100,000 years before 1968. Yet growing up an atheist liberal, it seemed a terrible injustice to want that. It's very nice to read the reflections of an intelligent proud housewife, and realize that it's our society which has turned against nature, rather than my desire being wrong. So, thanks for what you do.

FITZGERALD WRITES:

I picked up a few minutes of the University of Washington softball tournament on a whim only to hear Randy Johnson falling all over himself regarding his daughter and womyn’s athletics in general. It was truly nauseating, I switched the channel quickly grumbling all the while and went on with my routine, until I saw your posting. (more…)

ABOUT a year ago, a Polish friend said to me, “Polish people don’t get divorced.” My friend is now in the final stages of a divorce.

It used to be that Polish people didn’t get divorced, but now the heavily Catholic country is undergoing a divorce revolution along with the rest of Europe. At more than 25 percent, its divorce rate is half that of France and Germany, but still has more than doubled since 1980.

Feminism is a breeding ground for marital discontent, as this video about divorce among the Polish makes clear. One father in the video talks about his wife’s unhappiness and the subsequent collapse of their marriage.  “My wife had big plans for her life and I only got in the way,” the man states. Men are initiating divorces in Poland too, but if it fits the pattern of other Western nations, women favor divorce much more often than men, by a ratio of about three to one. Polish men seldom get custody of their children. Notice in this video, the bizarre masculine appearance of the woman who is the lawyer for the father.  (more…)

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IN commemoration of D-Day, here is a moving love scene from the 1946 movie The Best Years of Our Lives.

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Laura F. writes:

Ever since your post about Kraja, it has been All Kraja, All the Time at my house. Every time I turn on the computer I am surrounded by little girls clamoring for Kraja videos. I think we have watched every recording of them on YouTube. Have you seen the one about “Lars Persson”? The tune is wonderful and the words are charming. Here is a rough translation (by a Swede, it seems) provided under the video: (more…)

THE PEW Research Center reports:

A record 14.6% of all new marriages in the United States in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. This includes marriages between a Hispanic and non-Hispanic (Hispanics are an ethnic group, not a race) as well as marriages between spouses of different races — be they white, black, Asian, American Indian or those who identify as being of multiple races or “some other” race.

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HERE IS a good article on the correlation between increased economic independence for women, often due to government assistance, and the emasculation of men in Britain. It complements recent discussions here about the decline in male achievement. Camilla Cavendish writes: (more…)

THERE has been hand-wringing in the mainstream press in recent years about the precociousness of girls today, about their increasingly sexualized attire and behavior. But none of this commentary approaches the perceptive analysis of Thomas F. Bertonneau in the previous entry on the pop phenomenon Miley Cyrus, who is 17. As Mr. Bertonneau points out, popular culture is waging an active assault on girlhood. But of course, as we know, popular culture is waging war on everything and anything that is good, wholesome, normal or sacred. (more…)