SOME reflections on the movie Avengers: Endgame and "Feminism, Mediocrity and Abandonment of the Fight."  

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, observed in March, puts a spotlight on female achievement. We encounter women composers, artists, authors, activists and politicians whose accomplishments range from propaganda to the truly impressive. There is nothing wrong with celebrating those who have excelled.

But can’t we do that during the course of the year instead of having a month devoted to it? Isn’t it patronizing to have a month?

There’s another problem. In general we do not encounter achievements equal to those of the great male geniuses. Women’s History Month cannot help but highlight the areas in which the most brilliant women are inferior to the most brilliant men while neglecting the areas in which women are so often superior to men.

That’s why I don’t like Women’s History Month, which truthfully comes across as a celebration of female inferiority and vanity. This political grandstanding really misses the mark when it comes to recognizing women. So many of the important contributions of women to society are hidden and not very lucrative. There is every reason why they should be hidden and not very lucrative. Selflessness, nurturance, tenderness, aid to the poor and suffering will never win Nobel Prizes or Pulitzers and rarely show up in history books.

The 19th-century Irish Whig historian William Lecky, whose wife, by the way, was an author in her own right, made interesting comments about the differences between men and women in his 1869 book A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Vol II.

Lecky helps explain the problem with Women’s History Month:

There are few more curious subjects of enquiry than the distinctive differences between the sexes, and the manner in which those differences have affected the ideal types of different ages, nations, philosophies, and religions. Physically, men have the indisputable superiority in strength, and women in beauty. Intellectually, a certain inferiority of the female sex can hardly be denied when we remember how almost exclusively the foremost places in every department of science, literature, and art have been occupied by men, how infinitesimally small is the number of women who have shown in any form the very highest order of genius, how many of the greatest men have achieved their greatness in defiance of the most adverse circumstances, and how completely women have failed in obtaining the first position, even in music or painting, for the cultivation of which their circumstances would appear most propitious. It is as impossible to find a female Raphael, or a female Handel, as a female Shakespeare or Newton. Women are intellectually more desultory and volatile than men; they are more occupied with particular instances than with general principles, they judge rather by intuitive perceptions than by deliberate reasoning or past experience. They are, however, usually superior to men in nimbleness and rapidity of thought, and in the gift of tact or the power of seizing speedily and faithfully the finer inflexions of feeling, and they have therefore often attained very great eminence in conversation, as letter writers, as actresses, and as novelists.

Morally, the general superiority of women over men, is, I think, unquestionable. (more…)

"THE attitude of a religious man towards the acts by which he acknowledges God to be God, is quite different according as those acts are internal or external. It is principally in the internal acts, the acts by which he believes, hopes and loves, that man's good consists and what makes man good in God's sight. Whence it is written, The kingdom of God is within you (Luke xvii. 21). Man's good and what makes man good in God's sight does not, principally, consist in external acts. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, says St. Paul (Rom. xv. 17)." --- St. Thomas Aquinas, Meditations for Lent  

  ALAN writes: “It’s hard to believe that not that long ago men could joke about women without being sued”, you wrote. I will testify that there was such a time. Consider the teenage girls who carried army cots, magazines, tangerines, coffeepots, watermelons, TV sets, potato chips, and electric fans in their purse. Did they beat up on Paul Petersen for singing about them in 1962’s “She Can’t Find Her Keys?” They did not. They laughed along with everyone else. (Lyrics for She Can't Find Her Keys by Paul Petersen - Songfacts)  

  THE 1959 hit song, "I Got a Wife," was recorded by the American musical ensemble Mark IV. Set to a catchy polka, it reminds me of all the times I have "gibbered" my husband, especially on Saturdays. Needless to say, this would never be a hit today, not just because it's not lewd. You could probably be arrested for singing it. It's hard to believe that not that long ago men could joke about women without being sued. It's hard to believe there once was a time when even women had a sense of humor.  

"A GREAT SECRET for preserving peace of heart is to do nothing with over-eagerness, but to act always calmly, without trouble or disquiet. We are not asked to do much, but to do well. At the Last Day, God will not examine if we have performed a multitude of works, but if we have sanctified our souls in doing them. Now, the means of sanctifying ourselves is to do everything for God and to do perfectly whatever we have to do. The works that have as their motive vanity or selfishness make us neither better nor happier, and we shall receive no reward for them." --- Rev. F.X. Lasance, Kindness,  The Bloom of Charity; St. Bonaventure Publications, 2005; p. 35.  

  LYDIA SHERMAN writes: Fear contained in the news can rule your life. I look back and see that often nothing happened except that I took care of my home and family with one eye on the news, and a divided heart!!! A lot of women will regret the time spent on all this drama. “Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.” ―  General Douglas MacArthur 1957  

  "'ONE of the hardest parts of this,' said Senator Elizabeth Warren, her voice shaking as she announced the end of her campaign on Thursday, 'is all those little girls who are going to have to wait four more years. That’s going to be hard.'" (Source) This is one of the funniest things I have ever read. And it shows why Elizabeth Warren could not win. She's out of touch with reality. Anyone who thinks eight-year-olds really care about politics is dumb. Most little girls dream of being un-elected princesses. If not that, they'd like to be housewives pushing baby carriages and reigning  over their own domestic kingdoms. If you asked most girls, which would you rather do when you grow up: spend your days filling out a lot of paperwork at a desk, shaking hands with other people who spend their days filling out a lot of paperwork at desks, and making decisions that will make you unpopular OR marry a man you love, take care of little babies, clean, cook, and make curtains for a little home, there would be no question, the latter would be the answer. However, it is true, that if little girls are told or given the impression that being a president is a matter of wearing nice clothes, waving to nice people and having your picture taken, they may prefer the former. Thanks to political agitators like Liz, who is nothing but a…

WHY are people buying so much toilet paper? (more…)

  THIS VIDEO seems intended to induce fear and panic. I am sorry for those who have fallen ill, but the way this virus has been orchestrated suggests a political agenda.  

  AMERICA'S FOUNDERS wanted separation of church and state for the new federal entity they created. Little did they know, with their mischievous "enlightenment" values, that they were paving the way for synagogue and state. Here is Brother Nathanael at his best on the "Religion of Bernie Sanders." Of course, the religion of Bernie Sanders is similar, though more overtly tribal, to the religion of Donald Trump. And whatever support among Jews that Bernie Sanders gets, let's remember that Donald's top supporters are Jews too.    

  RUSS WINTER writes at Winter Watch: Sex obsession, including porn, makes one a receptive medium for occult influence. And for those who call us “prude,” let’s be very clear of what we are talking about. It’s no longer your granddad’s Playboy magazine soft porn. Today, there’s heavy emphasis on sodomy, another centerpiece of this black magik. They start children young with programs like Drag Queen Story Hour and a push toward pedophilia. Watch the abuse of a young girl – all the while with an inverted twisted message on the wall that says “Love”. This scene produces a state in which the mind is pliant enough to have certain ideas implanted: ideas which resist a great deal of counter-influence.  

[Reposted from July, 2016]

ALAN writes:

To the modern mind, it is never enough that a thing be what it is. The modern do-gooder is going to make it over into “fun” for everybody. A pleasant restaurant is never enough; it must be made into “fun” for children. An art museum, historical exhibit, or planetarium are never enough; they must be made into “fun” for the bored. A library containing the wisdom of the ages is never enough; it must be made into a fun house for everyone. Children’s remarkable capacity for learning is never enough; learning must be made into “fun.”

To shop for groceries in a supermarket is never enough; it must be made into a “fun” experience with clerks and cashiers frozen in perpetual smiles and fun “music” blasting from speakers that are beyond any known earthly power to turn off.

I was standing on the platform at a Metro Link train station on the St. Louis riverfront when I noticed a sign advertising the St. Louis Science Center and Planetarium. “We specialize in making science fun!” the sign proclaimed. That was a year ago. Today the sign has been modified to read “We put the element of FUN into science!”

The mindset that we see here has nothing to do with science, or with learning, or with life.  It has to do with a certain incapacity to appreciate the world. It has to do with bombast, sales, and marketing.  Such people have not the slightest interest in encouraging anyone to learn about science.  Such people are shills and hucksters who would box and market the sky, the moon, and the stars if they could.  They would reduce those things to a circus of gimmicks, thrills, sensations, and contrived “hands-on” push-button FUN! for children. (more…)

  WHY doesn't Greta Thunberg ever mention the very obvious aerosol spraying program that is going on over our heads? Her handlers must know about it. You only have to look up to see. Here is a ten-minute preview of the 2010 documentary What in the World Are They Spraying by Paul Wittenberger that examines the issue. Where I live, there has been almost constant spraying during the past six months.