BUCK writes:

 This story is a hoot! It’s not from The Onion, and I don’t think that it’s supposed to be funny (maybe it’s me). But the dry way that the two report it, intentional or not, made me laugh. The two female officers “happen to be” homosexuals. What a coincidence!　

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The controversy over Chick-Fil-A may now have impacted the Dallas Police Department.

CBS 11 has learned a Dallas Police Sergeant brought a sandwich from the embattled restaurant chain to work with him last Wednesday, August 1, a day known around the country as Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day.

When the Sergeant arrived at his post at the Southeast patrol, words were exchanged between himself and two female officers. (more…)

 DANIEL O. writes:

I do not know whether you have seen the film Idiocracy, and I do not know whether you will appreciate the film. Yet, the term ”idiocracy” accurately covers the situation in which an upcoming British queen consort is cheering for a muscular black woman to beat up a Chinese woman in the boxing ring, as reported by The Daily Mail. At any rate, at least the Duchess of Cambridge was watching the beating up ”stylish” — a word expressly used by The Daily Mail.

The term “‘ochlocracy″ also comes to mind. Increasingly, I am wondering whether the modernist ”nobility” should still be addressed with their official titles by traditionalist men and women. If the nobility is as vulgar as an ochlocratic mob, then it is an ochlocracy, and should be addressed as such. However, this would mean that traditionalist men and women lose this part of their decorum, since the use of titles to address someone is a good custom. What is your take on this? What is their due?

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KATHLENE M. writes:

The criticism of the masculinized Olympic women reminds me of a recent personal incident: My 90-year-old mother-in-law, who is one of the original diehard feminists, asked me if I was watching the Olympics, especially the women’s sports.

I replied, “No, not much.”

“Why not?!” she demanded to know, waiting for an opportunity to pounce as usual.

“The women look like men!” I answered. (more…)

BUCK writes:

In a matter of a few minutes yesterday, I came across three stories about the 2012 Summer Sex Olympics. How does the joke go? “Which one doesn’t belong and why?” One is about a female who flaunts her mightily maintained virginity like that is itself an Olympic event and competition. All the while she also flaunts her sexuality and body. Another story is about the Olympics as the new traveling freak show; guess which sex. The third is about the real competition; who can burn through more of the 150,000 “official” condoms before time runs out. (more…)

A TURKISH newspaper columnist has strongly criticized the defeminization of women at the Olympic Games. “Womanhood is dying at the Olympics,” Yuksel Aytug wrote in his column in the newspaper Sabah, according to The Daily Mail. Aytug said the appearance of women athletes at the games is “pathetic.”

Broad-shouldered, flat-chested women with small hips; [they are] totally indistinguishable from men.

Their breasts – the symbol of womanhood, motherhood – flattened into stubs as they were seen as mere hindrances to speed.

A man who dares to say what every normal person has been thinking when confronted with the muscle-bound female gladiators at the games and what soft, effeminate Western men would not dare articulate, Aytug has been attacked for his remarks throughout the Western world. He is tiresomely accused of misogyny. In fact, judging from these words, he is an admirer of women, a courageous defender of them. The Olympic Games are anti-woman. They require female athletes to ape men in grotesque ways. They compromise female fertility and modesty. They promote the idea that aggression and competitiveness in women are normal and healthy. They debase not just women athletes but womanhood throughout the world.

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MANY PARENTS today are shockingly ignorant when it comes to the mental world of children. This ignorance is the inevitable result of the prolonged infertility that came with the sexual revolution. During their twenties and early thirties, many adults hardly interact with anyone under the age of ten. A society that produces few children grows progressively more stupid and lacking in common sense. Individuals arrive at the threshold of parenthood unprepared for the fantasy world of children and their radical phases. It’s as if a Martian had landed in their midst.

Combine this ignorance with the left’s war against traditional sex roles and you get parents who, acting upon the advice of psychologists who have a vested interest in pathologizing every quirk of childhood, allow their young son to wear a dress to school. I haven’t read more than the first page of this New York Times article by Columbia Journalism School instructor Ruth Padawer and I don’t recommend you do more than that either. I offer it only to remind you yet again of how far, far, far we have fallen in this rabbit hole and of how you should do everything you possibly can to shield your own children and grandchildren from this sick culture.

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DIANA writes:

I decided to watch the news this morning and got what I deserved. On NBC, during the interminable Olympics coverage, there was a piece about “gender-neutral” bagpiping.

Turning in disgust away from this to another channel, I saw a commercial whose premise wasn’t immediately clear to me. The scene was a group of parents of young kids in a playground.

Most of the parents were white, they were well into their 30s, one was a white father with a baby strapped to his chest in one of those padded cloth contraptions. The parents were playing “middle-class one-upmanship.” (Should that be changed to one-up-personship?) Each parent challenged another parent with a question.  The questions came in very rapid fire fashion with that supposedly humorous undertone latterly known as “snarky.”  (more…)

DIANA writes:

Back in the 1970s, when Ms. Magazine was the new thing and all the rage, I read it. Billie Jean King was once on the cover. The interview took place before Maria Sharapova was conceived. Perhaps before her mother was conceived. BJK was ranting about how irrelevant a woman athlete’s looks should be to her public acceptability. “Does anyone judge a linebacker by his looks? Does it matter if he’s ugly, as long as he can tackle?”

I was reading the magazine in the lunchroom. A black female colleague looked at her picture on the cover and said, “Who is that?” I replied, “Billie Jean King.” Lillian said, “She is a moose.”

These arguments about beauty are endless and circular. In fact maybe they are not even arguments. It’s just one side ranting, the other side saying, “Yes dear….yes dear…..”

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AT Tradition in Action, Marian T. Horvat explains how Pope Benedict XVI’s recent blessing of the Olympic Games, and his statement that the Olympics are important in creating “universal fraternity,” were in contradiction of earlier teachings of the Church. The modern world idolizes sports. In 1952, Pope Pius XII, who almost certainly would not have placed his benediction on the London Olympics, said sports, as the highest aim of life, would be “too trifling for man, whose primary greatness consists in far higher aspirations, tendencies and talents.”

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SARAH PALIN, still the avatar of Republican Girl Power, was in Missouri this week campaigning for Senatorial candidate Sarah Steelman in platform shoes, tight jeans, over-sized sunglasses and a Super Man T-shirt. Playing the ditz liberals always said she was, Palin referred to Steelman as a “hot mama grizzly.” The woman who inspired a mass cult and left the Alaska governor’s office to turn the country around has given up any pretense of being a serious politician, which was a very tough act to maintain anyway. Steelman was defeated in Tuesday’s primary.

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  SHANNON EASTIN, who will be officiating at Thursday's Packers-Chargers game, is only a replacement, but NFL officials say there will be full female referees soon. In the New World order, wherever men are, there must be a mom nearby.

  AT Galliawatch, Tiberge has posted an interview with the French author Maurice Bonnet about his book L'Empire du Mensonge. Bonnet maintains that French society is saturated with lies. Among them is the lie of feminism. Bonnet states in the interview: I know many intelligent, marvelous women, and I feel that none of them would disagree with me. I call a spade a spade, and the condition into which our society is sinking is a disaster, due to the combined forces of the egalitarian lie, the venom of mixing women with men ("mixité"), the stupid principle of parity, and other idiocies of the same ilk. The situation is extremely grave. The invasion of all functions by women, even in the police and the army, should put us on the alert. We are going mad. This world, these people, who never stop talking about their "values", without ever explaining what they really consist of, have lost the most precious of values: simple common sense. Thanks to Tiberge, we are able to obtain these glimpses into the top French stories and French culture with her excellent translations.

IZZY writes:

One of the most common arguments for homosexuality is that it happens in nature and is seen in animals, so therefore, it is natural. Take this comment from a user on YouTube, who is supposedly “anti-feminist:”

“Homosexuality happens in nature, why wouldn’t it happen in humans? However, it might be more prevalent now than in the past because of environmental estrogens and other hormones and hormone-mimicking chemicals that affect sexual development post and pre-birth.”

The “homosexuality happens in nature” myth is exposed by NARTH’s article:  “The Animal Homosexuality Myth.” I highly recommend it.

By the logic of those who argue that homosexuality may occur in animals, and thus is normal in humans, eating our children and killing them is normal, as cannibalism is common in nature (and albinos should be thrown out of trees and off other high buildings). (more…)

A READER writes:

I’ve noticed you’ve avoided the whole VFR firestorm. I found the conversation interesting but I thought that it was not a conversation to be engaged in within the public sphere. The reason why is this; some subject matters require proper discipline and education to be responsibly engaged in. (more…)

JEANETTE V. writes:

I occasionally browse sites run by adoption agencies. I am too old to adopt a baby but I look anyway. This is what I saw. Very disturbing indeed. Quite frankly even though I am 60 and my husband 55, I believe we would make a far better home for a child than any homosexual “couple.”

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AFTER almost 50 years of aggressive, government-enforced affirmative action and non-stop celebration of every and any worldly accomplishment by women, feminist outrage lives on with no sign of abating. Jessica Valenti argues in a piece in The Nation that women continue to be victims of society’s relentless beauty standards. Beauty shouldn’t matter at all.

Be forewarned: There is profanity in this article. Valenti’s anger is so boiling hot one wonders if she might assault someone — but whom? The enemy is everywhere. Surely, Valenti will not rest until every little girl is a fuming, cursing revolutionary. Girls still want to be girls, and that’s a problem. She loathes femininity with a red-hot fury.

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MARY writes:

In light of your recent post “Britain’s Plague of Drunks,” I must pass on this ad for Skinny Cocktails. It shows girls getting drunk together. What fun.

Through a guest who brought a bottle of this stuff to my house for a barbeque I learned that the creator of this line of drinks is a former Real Housewife (of God only knows where). Anyway, the priorities seem to be, in no particular order: skinniness; flip flops; tanness; alchohol consumption; grinning; girl fun; bikinis; laughing; and dancing-with-a-drunk-sexy-expression-on-one’s-face. (more…)

SEE this amazingly forceful presidential election ad by Catholics Called to Witness that goes so far as to suggest that Catholics who vote for Obama in November will jeopardize their salvation. This commercial is unlike any anti-Obama advertisement I have ever seen.

The commercial has one weakness and that is its reference to the talking point of “religious liberty.” Obamacare is not essentially a question of religious liberty, at least not for Catholics. Is that what Catholicism stands for — freedom for all religions? It makes me cringe to hear bishops speak this way. Do we wish liberty for cults that believe in human sacrifice? Should we countenance liberty for a religion that entombed live people in pyramids or one that believed in killing infidels? It’s a question not so much of religious liberty but of the government supporting immorality, actively encouraging people to do wrong, and of marginalizing one particular religion: Christianity. And, as a commenter points out below, it’s a matter of individual freedom of commerce. So far there has been no serious repudiation by Catholic organizations of the idea that universal health care is in itself anti-Catholic even if it does not subsidize abortion and contraception.

Nevertheless, this is a very compelling video that should give pause to many liberal Catholics.

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