DIANA writes:

I do not think Amy Winehouse’s death is any kind of watershed. The monstrous machine will go on and on, until the entire economic system crashes. The possible rewards of show business look so glittering that there will always be legions of young dummies willing to sacrifice their youth for them. Read More »

IN FEBRUARY, a feminist blogger reviewed the PBS documentary Southern Belle. She was shaken to the core: Read More »

Bowl of Citrons, Giovanna Garzoni

THE GARDEN
by Andrew Marvell

How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays;
And their uncessant labors see
Crowned from some single herb or tree,
Whose short and narrow-vergèd shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid;
While all the flowers and trees do close
To weave the garlands of repose.

Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,
And Innocence, thy sister dear!
Mistaken long, I sought you then
In busy companies of men:
Your sacred plants, if here below,
Only among the plants will grow;
Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude. Read More »

BUCK O. writes:

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, the British writer Peter Hitchens called the British National Party a “delusional cult” because it limited membership to whites. In response, Lawrence Auster wrote:

So BNP limits membership to whites. Therefore BNP members are “outside the rules of reason,” they are a “delusional cult,” they are people who “specifically reject reason and truth in their discourse” and who “cannot really be treated as if they are civilised participants in the national debate,” and therefore instead of debating or talking civilly with them, one just treats them with mocking contempt.

What’s wrong with that? Read More »

KENDRA writes:

I read your recent post on the PBS documentary on the “Southern Belle” girls camp in the south.

I am not sure if you are familiar with the “Girls Rock” band camp phenomenon that is sweeping the nation, but there are camps hosted in many large cities now. Read More »

ERIC writes:

Your post on the women reclaiming lost identities as Southern Belles was a fine counterpoint to the stories about the untimely death of singer Amy Winehouse. I have a hunch that Winehouse’s unhappy life and wretched death are a watershed of sorts, a point at which the tide begins to recede. Read More »

ADVICE COLUMNISTS are shills for the feminist-dominated psychotherapy industry. No matter what a reader’s problem is they invariably recommend professional therapy. Here is a columnist who tells a man who has sex with his wife as little as once every six months that he should get counseling for himself. This man is supposed to crawl in a state of incapacitating starvation to a therapist’s office, shell over $100 bucks a week and sit for hours considering what he is doing wrong.

Here is my advice to this man. Read More »

Reading a Book, James Jacques Tissot, 1872

VICTORIAN artists painted an extraordinary number of portraits of women reading books.  Despite what feminists say, women were frequently seen in the act of contemplation in the nineteenth century. And painters found it inspiring. They saw something important in the act of feminine contemplation, as if it nourished them.

Virginia Woolf claimed intelligent women would never be anything short of suicidal unless they were just like men and spent years in academic institutions toiling away as specialists, their minds pointed toward goals like trans-Atlantic freighters. Still, women actually did find meat for their thoughts on their own, outside universities and the theaters of intellectual achievement. They were not deprived of reading material. What is a university but a bunch of books?

Woolf resented the fact that the attention of women is relatively unmoored and more adapted to interruption. She was angry women were not reading in institutions. Read More »

CHRISTINE SMITH:

I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now, and have found it to be very thought-provoking, and revealing of so many errors of our society. I often discuss your posts with my husband in the evenings. Thank you for your courage in upholding such “political incorrect” views.

A friend shared this link, and I wanted to pass it on to you, because I found it interesting. The author is a black woman who realized that she needed to re-examine a falsehood she had grown up believing, that “since I was black, that made me Democrat.” Read More »

Jadrienne Myhre, winner of Renfro award for 2008 Girls School

GREG JINKERSON writes:

My wife and I came across the PBS documentary Southern Belle two nights ago and when I realized what I was watching, namely modern young ladies reenacting antebellum Southern culture in a kind of historical school, The Thinking Housewife blog leapt to mind. What we did get to see of the film was extraordinary. Here is a link to the film’s website. Read More »

ACCORDING TO  a black militant organization in Philadelphia, the flash mobs of violent black teenagers who have beaten and robbed whites in Center City are “freedom fighters.” As reported at VFR, the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement has called for $1.1 billion in reparations and for charges against any of the teenagers to be dropped. The UhuruNews writes:

These large groups of African youth are actually rising up, coming together to show their unity and resistance against a city that attacks African people. Read More »

AS REPORTED at Galliawatch, bright yellow stickers such as this have been affixed to lampposts and bus stops in some neighborhoods in London and other cities of Great Britain. They declare the neighborhood a “shariah-controlled zone.”

THIS painting by the Irish-born artist John Lavery is a study for his work “The House of Commons – Ramsay McDonald Addressing the House” of 1924. (Thank you to the website, Victorian/Edwardian Paintings.) Leaving aside its historical meaning, I find it interesting as a painting of politicans, a subject matter rarely chosen by twentieth century artists. Although it is only a study and not the finished painting, this faceless sea of sobriety is moving and evocative. Read More »

A RECENT REPORT by the Heritage Foundation on the effects of non-maternal care on children made an astonishing admission, an observation I have not seen anywhere else. The report by Jenet Jacob Erikson, which analysed 30 years of studies of children in day care, stated that there are racial differences in mothering. White children are more damaged by day care than non-white children. Black mothers become more sensitive to their children when they are in day care; white mothers become less.  Read More »

THE DISCUSSION in the previous entry of the search for modest and feminine clothing in the desert of feminist junkwear and ultra-bland chinos and polo shirts continues here. It has yielded great suggestions from readers of retailers and styles. You can even go so far as to buy historical reenactment wear. This dress above could be worn with a a white bolero cotton sweater such as this when going out to make it more modest. Obviously, sewing things yourself is far more economical. But if you are like me and do not sew, it makes sense to spend a little more on a dress that you may wear over and over again. There are also great deals. I wore one calico blouse which I bought at a thrift store for 25 cents about 5,000 times because it was pretty and modest. I finally was so embarrassed by its overuse (it was virtually indestructible cotton) that I gave it away to charity.

Aminty writes:

First off, thank you for your website. I don’t have the time to go into it right now, but I find much of what you say to be true, true, true. As a woman with a degree in philosophy, masters in writing, and a law degree, I bought into feminism hook, line and sinker like so many of my contemporaries. Read More »