THE ENTRY of more women into the military leads to the never-ending project of proving that the military can fairly accomodate women and prevent sexual offenses. A federal lawsuit was filed yesterday by 15 military women and two men charging that the Department of Defense does not do enough to prevent sexual assault by servicemen.

A Pentagon spokesman stated, “That means providing more money, personnel, training and expertise, including reaching out to other large institutions, such as universities, to learn best practices. This is now a command priority, but we clearly still have more work to do in order to ensure all of our service members are safe from abuse.”

The military, which can never ensure all its service members are safe from abuse, will model itself after universities in an effort to try.

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CAROLINE writes:

I’m sure you’ve heard about the Lara Logan attack and rape in Egypt. Add that to your file of women placing themselves or being placed in fantasy situations: “Gee, here I am a sexy blonde reporter babe covering a bunch of male Muslim protestors in a Muslim country. What could possibly go wrong?” 

Reality must be optional for attractive liberals; after all, we’re all the same, aren’t we? We all want the same things—freedom, as G.W. Bush would have it. And underneath, everyone is really a *good* person, donchaknow? Sharia law, what’s that? According to it, I’m an infidel and inferior . . . but, but, I’m Lara Logan. I’m beautiful and liberated; I mean well, we libs love everybody. Read More »

From "Prison Women"

[NOTE: This post contains sexually explicit material and is not appropriate for children or teenagers.]

JESSE POWELL writes:

The National Geographic Channel recently featured two shows, Prison Women, that examine the subect of female prison guards in male prisons. The settings of the programs, which will be repeated February 23, were the Miami-Dade County Jail in Florida and Dallas County Jail in Texas. 

Women prison guards in male prisons is not a fringe phenomenon. In Miami-Dade County, according to Prison Women, 52 percent of the prison guards were female.  Almost half the guards were female in Dallas County.

Prison culture has been dramatically altered by the presence of women guards, who bring new possibilities for sexual encounters into prison life. Though this was not a point made by the producers of the series, women guards also deprive men who have generally grown up in single mother homes of the male authority figures they need. Read More »

DAVID C. writes:

Are we entering the era in which men will finally begin to stand up for themselves? This is the thought I have after reading a recent article by Anthony Buono, the founder of the Ave Maria online dating website. It is called, “Are Women Unappreciative?” In the piece, Buono writes:

Many women lack the appropriate tools a woman should have to draw out the love and devotion a man is capable of when he is with a woman who treats them right.

I have heard thousands of women complain about men over the years. Many of the things they complain about are legitimate things, but much of it is not. Women have a tendency to exaggerate and over dramatize what is wrong with men. What bothers me is the bitterness and negative attitude that is expressed along with their complaints. Read More »

MY mother used to celebrate Valentine’s Day by making heart-shaped cupcakes of vanilla cake with pink boiled icing. They were beautiful and ethereal, vanilla-scented clouds of sugar, butter, and flour. They were pillows of cake, the sort of thing angels would eat if they had tea parties and buffets.

Fortunately, these extremely evanescent manifestations of my mother’s love were larger than normal cupcakes. This was good because my six siblings and I seemed to suffer from infantile metabolic disorders. Like wolves, we prowled the Siberian steppes of our existence looking for any uneaten remnant of the things we considered edible. Without any tutoring from the others or any sharing of trade secrets, we each perfected the art of removing crumbs from the exterior of a cooling cake without leaving a trace. We employed stealth and cunning in our daily search for adequate nourishment. 

The good thing about cupcakes is that, even though there technically can never be enough of them, they usually do not create questions of fairness. They are all the same size. A single cake cut into pieces, on the other hand, can be outrageously unjust, with some pieces visibly larger and more filling than others. Cupcakes are conducive to world peace. 

From a child’s perspective, fairness is important. To a child, it is sometimes inconceivable that a mother or father can love each of his children the same, that each piece of cake can be equal. A child ponders this puzzle. It is one of the first philosophical issues he wrestles with, wondering how a parent can love him like no other and also love his brother or sister like no other. The child is usually wrong in doubting the capacity of his parents to love all their children equally and exclusively, but he is right in his dawning knowledge of a painful truth. Human love is finite.  Read More »

Vasilisa the Beautiful at the hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilbin

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Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon poses here with the newborn baby of her lover, Christine Marinoni. The Daily Mail refers to the baby, who was born last week, as the couple’s son, expecting readers to swallow nonsense whole and slide down the rabbit hole of artificially-created insanity without raising the slightest objection or cry for help.

Nixon, who plays an emotionally sterile wife in the Sex and the City movie, says, “I’m just a woman in love with another woman.” 

Despite her madonna-like pose in this photograph, Nixon is a typical anti-mother of our times, a person who has violated the most basic terms of motherhood. 

Homosexual “parents” are similar to the Baba Yagas of ancient fairy tales who stalked children in the woods.  They may not have pointy noses or broomsticks. They may not live in tiny cabins surrounded by fences made of human bones. But they are just as hostile to the young, snatching away their innocence and security, stealing them from their tiny cradles. Deliberately to deprive a child of a father, to arrange his conception the way one might arrange a major purchase, to raise him in a home without a man, cut off from half his kin and exposed to the shame of having two “mothers,” is nothing less than child abuse.

What has happened to the hearts of lesbians? They are shriveled and turned to stone.

STEVE KOGAN writes:

The King’s Speech gave me much food for thought that I would like to share with your readers. One idea, in particular, flashed through my mind several days after I saw the film and in a telling way, for it came to me all at once in the midst of my everyday routines. It was as though the film had taken on a life of its own in me, and in that moment I became aware of a wonderfully rich dynamic in the work that unfolds quietly and naturally, without ever once drawing attention to itself in any intellectualized or programmatic way. 

Knowing nothing in advance about the film except that it was about King George VI, I wondered if it would touch in any way upon his older brother David’s affair with the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, their Nazi sympathies, and his brief reign before his abdication, or if anything about the king’s contribution to English morale in World War II would enter into the work. As soon as the film began, my questions fell away. Read More »

LAWRENCE AUSTER writes here:

It is necessary for traditionalists constantly to repeat the point … that liberalism/leftism consists of two main wings. These wings hate each other, and so everyone assumes that their positions are mutually opposed, but in reality the two wings both have policies which must result in the dissolution of the historic cultures and peoples of the West. Read More »

M. writes:

I wanted to pick your brain, and those of your readers, on a subject that is of some concern to me. How does one deal with the birth of a child whose illegitimacy is … planned? 

My wife’s brother and his girlfriend live in a European country, and have let us know they are planning to have a child. Read More »

SEBASTIAN C. writes:

I thought you and your readers would be interested in this rather sad piece that recently appeared in New York magazine discussing the effects of online pornography on men and women across America.

I live and date in New York (I’m divorced, mid-thirties) but flatter myself that financial security and the exclusivity it brings has shielded me from many of these horrors, though not all. There is so much wrong with what the article reveals without even reaching the main points regarding pornography: the casualness of the relations between the sexes, the androgyny, the women’s mindset regarding sex, the sheer vulgarity and ugly aesthetic of it all. And then we come to the virtual lives people, especially men, are living in lieu of physical reality. Men have always looked at “girlie magazines” – nothing wrong with that, but this is now a difference of kind. They seem to be taking refuge from something in a virtual Matrix. It’s as if the electricity and computer have replaced their spinal column.  Read More »

DALTON L. HUFF writes:

Let it first be stated that the work you have done here has been nothing less than enlightening and inspiring to a twenty-year-old college student feeling his way out of the darkness of modernism. This lonely outpost of civilization has played no small part in my transformation from a warmongering neocon to the traditionalist I am today, along with other brave standard bearers of the true Right. Sites such as this one, American Renaissance, Vdare.com, Alternative Right, and Takimag are mainstays of my daily readings. I feel I must apologizing for the tardiness of my comment on this subject, but a bout with the flu, as well as my usual college work have delayed me.

But as a Southerner, I cannot allow you and Lawrence Auster to slander the cause for which my ancestors struggled, as you have both done in the post “To My Sacred Father.”

Suggesting that the Union truly would have been ‘sundered’ in any fundamental sense is pure emotionalism. Allowing the South to depart peacefully would not have destroyed the Union at all, only made it geographically smaller. To actually assert that the absence of the South imperiled the Union is laughable. You ascribe far too much power to us!  Read More »

THE Century Association, the exclusive Manhattan club which first accepted women under the threat of legal action in 1988, has severed its relationship with a British institution, the Garrick, because the London club still refuses to admit women who are not accompanied by men.

Credit goes to the Garrick for maintaining some resistance to the demise of the cushy all-male preserve. Interestingly, according to The New York Times, hundreds of members of the Century, which is supposedly a club of intellectuals, voted against the decision and some vocally protested it. There is still some life in America.

“A man must partly give up being a man/With womenfolk,” Robert Frost wrote. It is hard to envision the rural poet in either club, but he would have appreciated the spirit of the resistance and the desire for a club where the conversation was manly. 

Perhaps someday it will be illegal for club members to disagree with women. After every statement a woman makes, the male club member will be required to say, “That is fascinating. Please tell me more” or “You are so right” or “Why didn’t I think of that?”

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THE REV. JAMES JACKSON writes:

The Chicago Tribune has a rather good article by Victor Davis Hanson on the liberal arts. 

Also, I don’t know who the painter is, but there is a charming detail on the attached painting with our Lord doing to a sacred book what other babies do. 

IN THIS entry, Kendra writes:

I know there are a few black women out there who breastfeed and practice natural mothering, but there is a huge negative stigma attached to “acting white.” It will be up to black women to change this, not a white nurse [at the hospital]. How many generations of black women will dry up their milk after birth before evolution takes over and the future generation of breasts stop making milk completely? What is the future for black babies after ten generations of not breastfeeding? We are on generation four or five right now.

While I know she means well, this liberal NICU nurse will not change the deeply held cultural values in the black community regarding breastfeeding. Defunding the WIC program, or only offering nutrition to the breastfeeding mother, is the only solution in my opinion. We need to stop this abuse and let the natural consequences of bad decision making play themselves out. Seems harsh, but it is the only option. We shall reap what we sow.

FACED WITH financial pressure, the University of California, Berkeley will be eliminating positions for male athletes and adding positions for female atheletes. That’s right, it will be adding spots for women even though it is short of money.

More than 80 male positions will be cut while the women’s teams will be required to add 50 positions. According to The New York Times, “That is in addition to the more than 100 male athletes already cut when men’s rugby, baseball and gymnastics were dropped as varsity sports, or about the equivalent of two football squads.” 

Such is the insane and nefarious logic of Title IX, the federal legislation that mandates proportionate resources for female athletes. The effort to institutionalize equality through the imposition of numerical standards is a hoax. Feminism assumes there is enough for everyone. There is not enough for everyone and supporters of Title IX, including many who are financially invested in the growing female athletic infrastructure, are in the business of depriving men of valuable resources. They are at war with masculinity. They are also creating Amazons, freaks of nature with the thighs of Hercules and all the joy in sport and femininity of gladiators.

LAWRENCE AUSTER writes:

Kathlene M. writes:

Do women make for better news?” I would say no. When I see a glammed-up Dana Perino, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Diane Sawyer or even Nancy Pelosi talking or pontificating on television, I cannot pay attention because I’m too distracted by their appearances.

That is a key observation. People tend to think that only men are distracted when the female body is overexposed in, say, an office environment or a TV talk news program. But women are also distracted by inappropriate female exposure. As I have observed before, women, in their own way, are as interested in female beauty as men are, perhaps more so. Read More »