June 9, 2010
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.
June 9, 2010
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. Read More »
June 9, 2010
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. Read More »
June 9, 2010
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. Read More »
June 9, 2010
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. Read More »
June 9, 2010
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.
June 9, 2010
Danielle Lawrie
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. Read More »
June 9, 2010
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. Read More »
June 7, 2010
Danielle Lawrie
SCOTT writes:
Here is a puff piece from The Seattle Times about a young woman who has excelled as a pitcher in fast-pitch softball at the Unversity of Washington, and is now coming to the end of her last season as a star college athlete. The reporter tells us that in a “fairer” world, the woman would be on the brink of a career as a multi-millionaire professional athlete, but, because of an unenlightened and sexist American populace,she must now contemplate the possibility of living six months out of the year in Japan,where she can continue to be a “warrior” and make a six-figure income as one of the two token Caucasian girls on a Japanese softball team. Read More »
June 7, 2010
In the United States, in 2008, the divorce rate was 49 percent, a marriage rate of 7.1 and a divorce rate of 3.5 per 1000 population. In Canada, in 2004, the divorce rate was 48 percent. (Also, you might be interested to know, the out-of-wedlock ratio in Canada in 1991 was 29 percent and in 2007 was 38 percent.)
Below is a table of divorce rates in Europe. The source for the data is here. I have also included the fertility rates and out-of-wedlock birth rates, to further illustrate the decline of the family in Europe. Read More »
June 6, 2010
IN commemoration of D-Day, here is a moving love scene from the 1946 movie The Best Years of Our Lives.
June 5, 2010
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: Read More »
June 4, 2010
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.
June 4, 2010
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: Read More »
June 4, 2010
Miley kisses a woman on stage yesterday
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. Read More »
June 4, 2010
IF YOU liked the lovely songs by the Swedish female quartet Kraja that were posted here last week, please go back and view them again after you take a look at this clip of the teen star Miley Cyrus appearing on the show Britain’s Got Talent last night. Miley’s performance of her song Can’t be Tamed includes a prolonged kiss with another woman, or a person who is supposedly a woman but who looks like a punk demon. This kiss is not surprising. Even the vaunted Metropolitan Opera includes lesbian gestures in its productions. And, in everyday life, women who are not lesbians now regularly stroke, pet, and kiss each other with a level of sensuality once reserved for private moments and for lovers. Miley’s outfit, with its leather connotations of sexual fascism, is something you might see in a police state run by teen vixens. Read More »
June 4, 2010
LAWRENCE AUSTER writes:
Look at Nick Clegg in the photo in this entry. Have you noticed how men’s suit jackets today open too soon below the button, revealing the lower part of the tie instead of covering it? Obama introduced that look. Now it’s everywhere. I’m the only person I know who has noticed it. Do have any thoughts about what it signifies, culturally speaking?
In my view, it subverts the very idea of a suit, which is that it covers the man. Read More »
