“As I imagin’d, so it was, there appear’d before me a little opening of the Land, and I found a strong Current of the Tide set into it, so I guided my Raft as well as I could to keep in the Middle of the Stream: But here I had like to have suffer’d a second Shipwreck, which, if I had, I think verily would have broke my Heart, for knowing nothing of the Coast, my Raft run a-ground at one End of it upon a Shoal, and not being a-ground at the other End, it wanted but a little that all my Cargo had slip’d off towards that End that was a-float, and so fall’n into the Water: (more…)

THERE IS a lengthy highbrow discussion at the men’s website, The Spearhead, in response to the post here in which I said that a wife can never deprive a man of his honor and character. I have not read the whole Spearhead entry, but I have glanced at it. To give you an idea of the tenor of the discussion, or at least of some of the participants, one reader writes of me:

She is worthless, untouchable filth. She should have been aborted with a chainsaw.

Hawaiian Libertarian, who moderates the discussion and who has not deleted threatening comments such as this, falsely states that I do not accept comments here. I accept the comments of anyone who writes to me, provided they are civil and to the point, as is clearly stated on my home page at the bottom of every entry. He also falsely states that I am a reader of The Spearhead. I am not, though readers do occasionally send me links from there. (more…)

THOUGH HE was required to fill out a lengthy questionnaire about his sexual history, his health, and his personal habits, and to read warnings against donating blood if he was a homosexual or drug user, my husband was asked the following question in an oral interview when he went to give blood to the American Red Cross today:

Are you a biological male? (more…)

  SEE Lawrence Auster's commentary on the Lara Logan story. He writes: [L]iberals want it both ways. They present Logan to the world as superwoman, but when she was assaulted they suddenly treated her as a helpless vulnerable female whose tribulations must be hidden from the world.

JOE LONG writes:

A nation with a sense of honor would be raging to avenge Lara Logan. None of the supposed mitigating factors would matter – no, not if she did a striptease for the crowd while chanting “I love Mubarak.” 

In 1898, reports that Spanish authorities subjected women to procedures perhaps comparable to a standard TSA “patdown” today, enraged the American public and contributed considerably to our willingness to go to war with Spain – over someone ELSE’s women, no less. Rumors of the rape of Belgian women during Germany’s WWI attacks on that nation had a similar effect. Logan, on the other hand, was not only assaulted, but assaulted AS a representative of our civilization: the visceral response of a properly socialized man ought to be unbridled wrath. (more…)

PATRICK writes:

Here is a moving testimony at The Spearhead from a man whose wife watched the movie Eat, Pray, Love. She was so affected by it she told him she no longer loved him. Eat, Pray, Love  is a toxic celebration of feelings (only destructive feelings, because non-destructive feelings e.g. gratitude, are boring); a denigration of duty, and therefore a denigration of true love. The comment is a good example of a philosophy (hedonism with a dash of nihilism) applied directly and in an unadulterated form.

However, the comments from men that follow the post are disturbing.  The appropriate reaction to evil is not to become evil oneself, but to remain moral.  Simply identify and explain the evil – and pursue the good.  To wallow in resentment and bitterness leads nowhere. 

The “anti-marriage” ideology is deeply misguided. (more…)

  OUTSIDE, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in two or threes among the flowering shrubs. The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees. The air was drowsy with the murmur of bees and helicopters. The Director and his students stood for a short time watching a game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy. Twenty children were grouped in a circle round a chrome steel tower. A ball thrown up so as to land on a platform at the top of the tower rolled down into the interior, fell on a rapidly revolving disk; was hurled through one or other of the numerous apertures pierced in the cylindrical casing, and had to be caught. "Strange," mused the Director, as he turned away, "Strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games that do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness. Nowadays the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games."                                                --  Brave New World,…

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. (more…)

[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. (more…)