THE ENTIRE WORLD order now favors women over men. Such is the conclusion of a new article, “The End of Men” by Hanna Rosin in The Atlantic, which comes right out and states that women are not only better at most of the jobs that keep the modern economy running but are also more suited to leadership. Men were a good idea when the world needed immature, aggressive,  reckless, “overemotional” brutes who could hunt and plow. But those days are over. According to Rosin, “innovative, successful firms are the ones that promote women.”

Rosin writes:

What if the modern, postindustrial economy is simply more congenial to women than to men? For a long time, evolutionary psychologists have claimed that we are all imprinted with adaptive imperatives from a distant past: men are faster and stronger and hardwired to fight for scarce resources, and that shows up now as a drive to win on Wall Street; women are programmed to find good providers and to care for their offspring, and that is manifested in more- nurturing and more-flexible behavior, ordaining them to domesticity. This kind of thinking frames our sense of the natural order. But what if men and women were fulfilling not biological imperatives but social roles, based on what was more efficient throughout a long era of human history? What if that era has now come to an end? More to the point, what if the economics of the new era are better suited to women?

It’s funny how after years of government-enforced affirmative action and propaganda promoting the idea that women are naturally good at everything, the economy just happens to be “more congenial” to women than men.

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IN A highly sexualized culture, incestuous expressions of love are inevitable. Here is teen star Miley Cyrus with her father, Billy Ray Cyrus.

The possibility of Miley Cyrus ever having a healthy relationship wth a man is almost nil.

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  GIVEN THE choice, which would you rather have? An invitation to a party with great food and interesting people in a modest home? Or an invitation to a party in a fabulously appointed home with lousy food and deadly-dull guests? The deadly-dull party with lousy food and deadly-dull guests is a common feature of modern society. That's because people spend so much time earning the money for granite countertops and big-screen TVs, they create a vast social wasteland. They cannot converse. They cannot offer the rudiments of hospitality. They can only offer products on display.

  MY HUSBAND  met a man today who was married to his first wife for 70 years. She died and he has just remarried at the age of 97. His second wife is "two thirds" his age, which means she is in her sixties. Imagine competing with the memories of a seventy-year marriage. Even people in their nineties can display the symptoms of adolescence. It's not that the old shouldn't get married, but at 97?

IF YOU value this blog and would like to see it survive in the competitive, dog-eat-dog world of the Internet,  please offer a donation, perhaps what you would pay for a modestly-priced subscription to a magazine.  I have an endless list of articles and entries I would like to post, including further installments in the Famous Couples series and The Thinking Housewife Book Club, as well as entries on a host of subjects that are of interest to traditionalists. I would like to add new features and possibly audio interviews. Unfortunately, the future of this site is in serious jeopardy. The problem with ideas and the written word is that they often have the appearance of effortlessness. Like lilies in the field or clouds in the sky, they seem like things that should be free. I do not wish to put advertising on this site or to introduce paid forums. The focus here is on ideas and engaging diversions. It's a gamble, but with 18,000 readers last month, a large number for a one-person site that started little more than a year ago, it seems like a reasonable one.  The demise of this blog would not be the end of the world for you or for me. Not at all. But I like to think you would not easily find a replacement for it. Thank you to those who have already given. By the way, if you have not read, Crusoe Speaks, the first installment in my series A Tale of Eternal Thoughts, I hope you will. In Paradise,…

  KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT reviews the new book by the former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Kidist writes, "Welcome, therefore, to the Ayaan Hirsi Ali franchise, replete with adultery, and family and political betrayals..."

IF YOU have not tuned in to Guy Sr. over at What Women Never Hear recently, you may be interested in his latest efforts to educate the masses about sex differences. He offers a new list. I am confused by the first item on the list, but much of the rest makes sense. Here it is:

1. Natural self-interest motivates everyone. Men see it as individual authority to act. Women have difficulty separating self-interest from selfishness.
2. Men honor courage. Women honor compassion.
3. Women understand what men say and do, but they don’t like it. Men don’t understand what women say and do, but they accept it until they’re suckered.
4. Men go more for full disclosure in apparel than person. Women go more for full disclosure in person than apparel. (more…)

CAN a moral revolution ever come from the upper classes of society? This is an interesting question. The wealthy, it seems, are generally too distracted, too cushioned from the consequences of de-moralizing forces. Philip Rieff, in his book The Triumph of the Therapeutic, writes: Moral reform, no less than social, must push up from below.... [T]he cultivated, with their high arts and literature, are too comfortable to deploy righteous indignation; and the lowly are sunk too far  into their peculiar resorts of comfort. Moralizing belongs to the ambitious middle range of the Western social structure, if it may be properly located anywhere at all. Not class position, but creedal preoccupation, as an alternative to refinement and aesthetic perception, is the driving force of moralizing movements. In all the writings of Calvin there is scarcely a reference to the beauty of the landscape surrounding Geneva. He was far too busy regulating the manners of Genevans, including the exact length of the ladies' skirts.

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.

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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.  (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

  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.

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. (more…)

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.  (more…)

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