ALAN writes:
Readers who value good books will be delighted to learn that the St. Louis Public Library now makes the following titles available to its patrons (Warning: Indecent language):
LYDIA SHERMAN writes:
You once wrote on the topic of the charities that drain our personal resources. After recently attending an evening tea social gathering, (or what I had been told was a formal tea), I noticed that many of the women there were pushing charity-type ministries, and were rarely at home. Many of them were working for multiple charities and marketing several multi-level businesses at the same time.
The women made a point of informing me of their particular ministries and charities. I was cornered by a woman who insisted on relating her experiences leading up to being involved in a ministry. Her “testimony” lasted 20 minutes.
SOPHIA writes: Here is a disturbing news article about a German man who had been adopted as a child and later married his biological sister, had four children with her, and was sent to jail under incest laws. The German Ethics Council now on his side has dismissed the protection of the family as "abstract" subordinating it to "sexual self-determination," while three of their children happen to be disabled! Western governments, so obsessed with talk of "rights," have ironically tossed natural law and the actual rights that follow from it out the window.
THIS IS Alton Alexander Nolten, 30, the man who is accused of beheading a co-worker at an Oklahoma food plant yesterday. Nolten was fired from the plant Thursday for unknown reasons and returned to Vaughan Foods in apparent revenge. He was shot by the CEO of the company after beheading Colleen Hufford and stabbing another woman.
Nolen converted to Islam in prison, a fairly common phenomenon among black U.S. inmates. According to The Daily Mail:
TEXANNE writes: Following this National Review article about Wesleyan University in Connecticut and its decision to order fraternities to become coed, there's a great line from a commenter: Every institution is going to require both male and female representation except marriage.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX reviews the Disney movie Maleficent, which he offers as a disturbing look at the selfishness and self-glorification of women today. The moral of the movie: “Men are disposable slaves. Women are dark, justified goddesses of retaliatory magic.”
“It is not healthy to tell women that men are bad. It is not healthy to tell daughters that fathers are bad. It is not healthy to tell wives that husbands are bad, because the absence of fathers is killing the world,” he says.
“A society without respect for men has no respect for nature, or property, or currency, or solvency, for its own children or its own future, which shortens every day.”
But for a little off-color language in this, which is why I wouldn’t recommend listening to it when children are in the room, this is very well done. However, Molyneux ventures into “men’s rights” hyperbole when he says women are proven to be more abusive than men. No one could possibly prove that.
ACCORDING to The Daily Mail:
Jesse ‘LJ’ Matthew, the man charged with the abduction of missing UVA student Hannah Graham, was accused of rape when he studied at Liberty University, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.
Matthew was expelled from the Christian university founded by Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 2002, following the alleged sex attack on a female student but was not charged with any crime, former teammates said. (more…)
THIS is Hannah Graham as she headed out for a party in Charlottesville, Va. on the night of Friday, Sept. 12. She has not been seen since 1:20 a.m. that Saturday morning and chances are slim that she will ever be seen alive again. The 18-year-old University of Virginia student was apparently intoxicated when she left a party off campus and headed back to her campus apartment alone. She texted friends to say she was lost. Surveillance videos show her walking through the Downtown Mall area and going into a bar. She was last seen with Jesse Matthew, a 32-year-old black nursing assistant whom it is highly unlikely she had ever met before. Matthew reported to the police station Saturday, Sept. 20., asked for a lawyer and then fled. He has been charged with abduction, but is still at large.
WHY did men so readily surrender many of their privileges in the face of angry demands for equality and systematic discrimination against themselves? At The Brussels Journal, Richard Cocks blames the innate male impulse to help women in distress:
What happened when women in the early sixties cried for help? The mostly male Congress and Senate acted almost immediately and passed laws to ease women’s access to the job market. As men have always done, we seek to be the hero and savior for women. However, this time there was a twist. Women claim to be victims. So far so good. However, if they are victims, who are the oppressors? The men have turned up, eager to attack the enemy; eager to defend womankind. Where is this nasty oppressor? Who is it exactly? The response, of course, is YOU are. You, the man, are the oppressor. It can’t be anyone else.
This sets up a conflict in men which is entirely driven by traditional expectations of the male role. And it sets up a war within men themselves, not just between the sexes. This is the basis for modern male self-hatred.
The male reaction to feminism is strong evidence against feminist claims of oppression.
MARY writes:
Kevin Williams wrote in his article, “Rape Epidemic Is a Fiction:”
“Evidence very strongly suggests that rapists frequently use intoxicants, openly or surreptitiously, as part of a strategy conceived with malice aforethought to render their victims vulnerable. It might be useful to know how often this is the case and how often it works or fails to work, but we will not know if we refuse to ask the question.”
In this late stage of moral decline can we actually be this guileless? Alcohol has been used since the beginning of time to lower defenses, in business, in politics, and, yes, for sex. Are we really going to put men who openly share alcohol and drugs with young women in the same category as those who do it surreptitiously? This is where the argument breaks down, for in one stroke they incriminate all college men looking for action – and it seems most are. So they are all rapists…? This presents a beautiful dilemma, simply solved, for if loosening up with alcohol and drugs in looking for action is an offense then it must be bad; if it is bad it must be discouraged; and it can be easily discouraged by putting men and women back in separate dorms, enforcing sobriety, banning pornography on campus, etc., etc. But, alas, the women are looking for action, too – just on their own terms. And they cannot see the forest for the trees.
Socially speaking, college campuses are populated with modern young feminists and men who desire them. Is being a cad now a capital offense? The elephant in the room is that feminism itself released these cads from the moral constraints that used to hold them in check; feminism unleashed these public-school-sex-educated men on young feminists, who are proving to be surprisingly vulnerable – they have been stripped of their erstwhile protections: modesty, embarrassment, sobriety, chaperones, wise mothers, strong fathers, and good old horse sense. Feminism bellowed, “We don’t need any stinking protection!”, and now resort to a sort of soft lynching to punish the cad: more legal overreach to try to “correct” human nature. This all leaves the modern young feminist looking helpless indeed. (more…)
AT Lifesitenews, Ben Johnson writes about the Scottish “poet” Leyla Josephine and her video on her abortion:
That intimation that her daughter died for “choice” – that she offered her baby as a living sacrifice on the altar of abortion – confirms the darkest rhetoric of the pro-life movement: That for some in the movement, abortion is sometimes regarded as an idol.
And that raises one other, more universally held question: What kind of parent asks his son or daughter to die for the “right” to abortion? Parents are supposed to be the one who sacrificially care for their children, who forsake their own comfort, who do whatever is necessary – even die – to keep their children safe, healthy, and well. Josephine’s blithe, “Sorry, but you came at the wrong time” sounds as hollow as a gangland assassin’s apology to the family caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. Abortion severs the love that God, or Mother Nature, or evolution, or whatever you choose to believe in placed within every pregnant woman to link the mother to her child.
RAPE is definitely a reality and a problem on American campuses, which is not surprising given campus culture. But the epidemic touted by Obama and other feminists is not based on reliable evidence. From Kevin Williamson at National Review:
The fictitious rape epidemic is necessary to support the fiction of “rape culture,” by which feminists mean anything other than an actual rape culture, for example the culture of the Pakistani immigrant community in Rotherham in the United Kingdom. “Rape culture” simply means speech or thought that feminists disapprove of and wish to suppress, and the concept has been deployed in the cause of, inter alia, bringing disciplinary action against a Harvard student who wrote a satire of feminist rhetoric, forbidding politically unpopular speakers from speaking on campuses, and encouraging what often has turned out to be headlong and grotesquely unjust rushes to judgment, as in the case of the Duke lacrosse team. Feminism is about political power, and not the Susan B. Anthony (“positively voted the Republican ticket — straight”) full-citizenship model of political power but rather one dominated by a very small band of narrow ideologues still operating under the daft influence of such theorists as Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, each of whom in her way equated political opposition to feminism with rape.
MARISSA writes in response to the post about a ruling by a Texas judge protecting “up skirt” photos:
It sounds terrible to the liberal’s ear (and yes, I count the vast majority of Americans as liberals, either classical or modern), but this is one of the many problems with the First Amendment, which incidentally receives more love and recognition than the First Commandment. No one has the right to engage in pornography or in spreading it. No one has the right to practice worship of Satan. That the decadent Western world has enshrined these disgusting practices as rights only shows how the system founded on the Constitution and Bill of Rights leads to corruption and enslavement to the basest forms of human sinful expression. The American nation was founded on rejecting any form of objective Truth and Beauty for a banal, beige “neutrality” which has devolved into massive immigration, child-murder and forced acceptance of homosexuality. Thank you, Freemasons!
OWEN FRANCIS DUDLEY became an Anglican minister in 1911 and worked in an East End parish in London for several years before converting to Catholicism. “What I Found” is his essay on his conversion. It is the best description of the common mentality of Anglicans toward Catholicism that I have ever read. He begins:
My first introduction to the Catholic Church was being spat in the eye by a Roman Catholic boy at school. He was bigger than I; so I let it pass. But I remembered he was a Roman Catholic. My next was at a magic-lantern entertainment to which I was taken by my mother. In the course of it there appeared on the screen the picture of a very old man in a large hat and a long white soutane. I must have asked my mother who it was, and been informed briefly that it was the “Pope of Rome.” I don’t quite know how, but the impression left in my mind was that there was something fishy about the “Pope of Rome.” At school, I learned in English history (which I discovered later was not altogether English and not altogether history) that there was something fishy not only about the Pope of Rome, but about the whole of the Pope’s Church.