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 »
June 4, 2010
HERE is a bold, countercultural piece written in 1946 by a leading American psychiatrist. He contends the push for female equality will be a disaster because women are emotionally stunted and tend to abuse power. “Woman’s nature,” he writes, “in combination with the diverse compulsions and taboos of civilization, gives rise to a strong craving for mistreatment.” His words are prophetic.
Dr. Ralph S. Banay, a Columbia University professor whose essay appears in The Milwaukee Journal, says “the fair sex is emotionally childish, inclines toward crime, cruelty and deceit, and doesn’t really want equality with men,” but power over them. He writes:
“Woman’s emotional aspect simply has not gone along with the rest of her entity. Woman has become a big and powerful factor in business, the professions, the arts and community life, but emotionally she has hardly moved at all; emotionally she is still back where she was when her stone age counterpart was an object of the chase to be captured and subdued.”
He advises every woman to place these words in a prominent place: Women are not angelic.
It’s interesting that Banay was a psychiatrist. He would be horrified by psychologists today who push the idea that women are indeed angelic and that masculinity is a disorder.
June 3, 2010
JOHN LOCKHARD writes:
The solution to Elise’s problem seems obvious to me. You should add a matchmaking section to your website. I would love to find a woman who likes your website and wants to be a traditional housewife. Heck, Elise herself sounds fantastic, except that I’m eighteen years older than she is. There must be lots of scattered traditionalists who read your blog. Think of it as a way of multiplying your readership! Of course, there would be a certain delay. :-)
Laura writes:
The thought has occurred to me. The problem is, would there be liability issues?
I will say that my recent fundraising campaign is prompted by both need and exhaustion. I’m about ready to sell my female readers to my male readers. : -)
June 3, 2010
IN RESPONSE to the entry on goddess spirituality, Thomas F. Bertonneau writes:
Under the provocation of Kristor’s insight and yours, I am following out some associations in respect of Gnosticism and our reigning elites. I remarked how the “Goddess writer” rejects scholarly diligence in favor of mystic autoscopy. (“The most important place to look for the Goddess is within yourself.”) Le moi – it’s an even easier reference than Wikipedia!
June 3, 2010
JAMES P. writes:
There is a New York Times story today about workplace protection for nannies. You will note, in the article, the assumption that the bill is a good thing because it will extend workplace protection to illegal immigrants. It is pretty much a given that the nanny will be foreign and probably in the country illegally.
This picture says it all — a black nanny with two white children in her care. Whatever happened to white women raising their own children?
June 3, 2010
THANK YOU to those who responded to my recent request for donations to this site. If you would like to see this blog remain in existence, and not go the way of so many one-person operations which peter out or suddenly disappear because of the enormous time and energy needed to sustain them, please give.
June 3, 2010
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg recently delayed cabinet meetings so they could take their children to school. They say they will be doing more of the same in the future. Cameron will be taking paternity leave when his wife gives birth in September and Clegg may have more serious responsibilities as his wife is a top lawyer and reportedly the main breadwinner in the family. According to The Daily Mail, Read More »
