Frak writes:

I’m a 21 year-old male college student. I want to thank you for your blogging. Your weblog is valuable in ways you’ll never know.

Kristor is absolutely correct in the previous post about this: “What is an alpha female? A pretty, intelligent girl who is chaste.” Unfortunately, as a college student, I can tell you with a very high degree of confidence that the prettier the girl, the more sexual partners she has likely had. The pool of pretty girls who are chaste is, well, extremely tiny at my university – perhaps 5% of females qualify, if that. I sometimes wonder if young women simply don’t know that, as they gain sexual experience, they become less attractive. Read More »

RATHER THAN regretting her mistakes, the New Single Mother revels in them. She dotes on her little one, has sex with many men in search of elusive perfection, and publicly trashes the father of her child. She forms networks with other single mothers, who help each other normalize the abnormal and defiantly proclaim they don’t need men.

This bravado does not hide their unhappiness. Look closely and you will see. And, it will never give their children one of the things they want most: a father.

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REMEMBER THE ancient ways of childhood before the Age of Psychology? It brings tears to the eyes. Think of all the children who were unmedicated. Contemplate the little ones who didn’t go to therapists or who had only names, not diagnostic labels.

Erik Kolbell, a psychotherapist writing in the New York Times, states that children suffered cruelly before there were professionals like him: Read More »

IN 1991, the then Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Frank Kelso, expressed the view that women shouldn’t serve on warships. “There is a delicate balance between equal opportunity for men and women and maintaining combat effectiveness of our forces,” he said.

Adm. Kelso is long gone. Those were the olden days. Now women serve in high ranking positions and the average crew is more than 10 percent female. Not all women in command are as mean as Captain Holly. Here is a Time magazine story from 2000 about Commander Kathleen McGrath, whom by all accounts was well-liked. She has since died of lung cancer.

The temperament of women who assume the helm can never in itself be sufficient argument for or against women in command. There are other more profoundly disturbing reasons and they are apparent in this profile of McGrath. For one, McGrath is not a normal woman. I don’t mean that in a disparaging way. She just does not typify the dreams and aspirations of most women. Notice this about why she was attracted to warships.

After sailing out of Yokosuka on a visiting frigate, McGrath was more determined than ever to serve on a warship. “It was a lot more fun, like driving a sports car,” she says. “They go fast, handle better, and they’re sexy and glamorous.”

A culture that glorifies women in masculine jobs exalts the traits and inclinations of the abnormal woman.

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DAVID WRITES:

My name is David, I’m a twenty four year-old guy living in New England — I confess I am one of those slowly maturing betas your posts mention — and I just wanted to write and say that I think you and your posts are absolutely amazing. You are truly a voice of reason and good sense in a world that is spiraling into ever greater lunacy and evil. Read More »

The case of Holly Graf, the Navy captain relieved of command of a guided missile cruiser for abusing the crew with curses, insults, taunts and minor physical assault, is the subject of interesting discussion among military insiders here. A retired Navy captain writes:

WOMEN ARE 100% CAPABLE OF SERVING IN COMMAND OF NAVY COMBATANT SHIPS!! DO NOT DOUBT THAT FOR A MILLISECOND.  Read More »

ELIZABETH GILBERT’S book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage has been on the bestseller lists for weeks and is now listed at No. 10 by the New York Times.

Contrary to its title, this book is not at all about making peace with marriage, at least not marriage to a man. It’s a misty-eyed paean to feminine independence and an ignorant and misleading appraisal of the institution of marriage. It is shockingly anti-male, so much so that if the word ‘man’ was replaced with woman throughout, there would be crowds lined up outside bookstores demanding its removal. How is it that a woman who is divorced once, childless, and now married to a divorced man 17 years her senior becomes an acclaimed authority on marriage? Only within the philistine confines of the contemporary women’s book club, where female superiority is constantly assumed, would such a book rise to the top of the charts.

According to Gilbert, marriage is a raw deal for women and highly beneficial for men. She writes: Read More »

A SINGLE Orthodox Jewish woman had 2,000 living descendents, including more than 200 grandchildren, when she recently died.

GEORGE WILL writes about a new book on male immaturity and apathy. He says:

In 1956, the median age of men marrying was 22.5. But between 1980 and 2004, the percentage of men reaching age 40 without marrying increased from 6 to 16.5. A recent study found that 55 percent of men 18 to 24 are living in their parents’ homes, as are 13 percent of men 25 to 34, compared to 8 percent of women. Read More »

CAN MODERN SOCIETY return to any semblance of the civilized and benevolent patriarchy that existed in early 19th century America? If so, what shifts in contemporary thinking would be necessary to bring about such a profound change?

I recommend my discussion with Kristor in the previous entry. 

N.W. WRITES:

While reading the paper today I came across a quote which I found rather disturbing in as much as it is indicative of things to come. Read More »

IN THIS thread  at What’s Wrong With the World on the folly of women holding positions of leadership (posted here previously), Kristor reflects on authority, masculinity and human nature. He writes:

It is natural – in both the modern and medieval senses of that word – that leadership should fall to men because when things go to hell in a hand basket, they are the ones who die first. Read More »

Some of the works stolen from the Gardener Museum

IT IS two decades this month since thieves talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston and stole an estimated $250 million in works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas, Manet and others. The 13 paintings and drawings represent the world’s most valuable art heist.  A $5 million reward has been offered for their return and the statute of limitations has expired on the crime. Now, according to the Boston Globe, investigators are looking for a breakthrough with advanced DNA testing. The thieves used duct tape to tie up the two college students who were on guard the night of March 18, 1990. The FBI is hoping the criminals left their own sweat on the tape, which has been sent off to a lab for testing. These might be the most valuable perspiration traces in history. What are detectives supposed to say, we give up?  Read More »

SARAH L. WRITES:

I am writing in regard to your post on preferential hiring for men. It addresses something I’ve been uneasy about for some time, but have still not come to any conclusions.

When I was young, I could name many different ideas of what I wanted to be when I grew up, but what I really wanted was to be a wife and mother. I did well in school, and assumed college was in my future, although I didn’t know what I wanted to study (I loved to write, and thought English was suited to me, but I ended up studying psychology, which was even more suited to me). Still, when my mother asked me what I wanted to be, I said, “A wife and mother.” Her response was that I needed to have a backup plan. Read More »

WHEN BRENT KING, the father of murdered California teen Chelsea King, stood before thousands of people at a candlelight vigil Tuesday night, someone shouted from the crowd, “We love you.” To which King replied, “We love all of you.”

Think of standing before a crowd with a microphone in one’s hands and placing grief that surpasses understanding on the altar of mass sentiment. Read More »

I RECENTLY talked to a female corporate executive who was unemployed. She had earned a handsome six-figure salary at her former job. She still had an annual six-figure income from her ex-husband and a six-figure income (or slightly less) from her current husband. Within a few months, after panic over her unexpected job loss, this mother of three young children found a new position in a dismal economy. Yes, it was a six-figure job too. Read More »

Hannon writes:

I really got a charge from reading Aservant’s post about chefs. While I foreswore I would never work in the “food service industry” and never have, I have great appreciation for Aservant’s sentiments and thoughts on the subject. My own work in another hands-on, unseen and “all labour” industry as a nurseryman is similar in some ways, especially in the technical knowledge and skill that only comes from experience. But it has nothing like the minute-to-minute demands of a kitchen. Still, I would wager that making good money – that is, a wage that allows homeownership at some point and obviates the wife earning wages-  is more difficult growing and selling live plants, mainly because of the low value people assign to them. 

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John Albert Gardner, the man held for questioning in the disappearance of San Diego teenager Chelsea King, was convicted of attacking a 14-year-old girl ten years ago and is a suspect in the disappearance of another girl. He is probably what is known as a repeat sex offender. Psychiatrists say that rapists and child killers are among the least likely criminals to be rehabilitated. Some argue this is proof they are suffering from a disease. Read More »