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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Cinderella, What Were You Thinking?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

  You could have gone to college and become a human resources director. You could have gotten an MBA too. You could have refused to sweep or toss the cinders. You could have tried on another shoe. O Cinderella, what were you thinking? As a role model, you just won’t do. .

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The Housewife and the Plumber

Thursday, October 29, 2009

  Housewives and plumbers are natural comrades in arms. They have something very basic in common and that is, they are always and everywhere needed. They address the most fundamental and routine needs of human existence. Civilization cannot function well without them, and yet so rarely acknowledges its dependence upon them. There is something shameful about both the [...]

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A Nihilist at the Opera

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The eroticism of this photograph of Finnish soprano Karita Mattila in the title role of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Puccini’s Tosca, one of the most beloved of Italian operas, gives you some idea of what it’s like when one of today’s hip nihilists takes over a traditional art form. This production was booed by Met fans [...]

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Why Modern Design is Anti-Woman and Anti-Family

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

                                             Interior Design Magazine/ Photo by Eric Laignel.   Natalie writes in response to the previous post on interior design:     I was interested in your thoughts on current interior design trends and the rise in minimalism. First, minimalism is a very masculine style, and one could say that the more androgynous [...]

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The Principle of Non-Decoration

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

    Photo by Eric Laignel.   Modern design and fashion are characterized by a love of uniformity, monotone colors, and visual barrenness. In clothes, this means grays and browns for women with few embellishments or frills. In interior design, this translates into an absence of pattern, vibrancy, texture and warmth. It’s egalitarian chic and deliberately plays down luxury. Only [...]

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The Tactics of the Anti-Woman Woman

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

  It is a standard rhetorical device of feminists to always and unfailingly make token nods to the domestic woman, as if to say, “I’m not against domesticity. I only want women to have the freedom to choose.” This is a lie. They do not want freedom, but the transformation of female nature. A perfect example of this [...]

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Women and Divorce

Monday, October 26, 2009

  There are two kinds of women in this world: women who divorce and those who stand by and passively watch. The first kind of women wreck the lives of their children and husbands. The second kind say, ”We cannot judge.” I am sorry to be grim. I have witnessed many divorces. Sometimes I feel as if my [...]

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Disorder Claims the Nation’s Children

Monday, October 26, 2009

  You’ve heard of ADD, ADHD, OCD and the like, and you’ve perhaps seen the children lined up at school infirmaries for their chemical supplements. Now, word is just in from The Onion of a new psycho-neurological condition afflicting the nation’s youth. This should have been discovered ages ago. Millions have gone untreated.

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The Fugitive Leaf

Monday, October 26, 2009

                             The band of deciduous forest which extends roughly from the Blue Ridge Mountains to northern Quebec is unusual in the world for its autumnal color. The only other extensive swathe of forest that rivals it stretches across parts of East Asia. Deciduous trees elsewhere do not exhibit the spectacular mixture of reds and yellows. In Europe and midwestern United States, trees typically turn only [...]

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The Egalitarian Family and Spoiled Children

Saturday, October 24, 2009

  Paul Velde writes: In your piece on men and housework, you remark apropos of another subject altogether, “The average woman wants control over her domestic realm and she doesn’t like the way men… manage the children.” Perhaps the operative word here is “average,” but nonetheless could you find time to expand on this point? [...]

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Can Liberty Survive Feminism?

Friday, October 23, 2009

  Lawrence Auster writes here: It appears to be the case that if a society gives equal political rights to women, then over time there will inevitably be an expectation of equal political outcomes for women. How is this dynamic to be forestalled? By stating up front, by establishing it as a fundamental principle of [...]

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More on the Unfaithful Wife

Friday, October 23, 2009

  A female reader writes about the previous post The Unfaithful Wife: That was a thought-provoking article. Maybe I’m taking it the wrong way, but it seems like you’re being much harder on women than men. Men have been having and getting away with having affairs for millenniums. And a lot of women have sucked [...]

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Dust Until You Drop

Friday, October 23, 2009

  I am running myself ragged, dear reader, trying to keep up with the latest lies in our preeminent newspapers. According to this story in the Wall Street Journal, men will have more sex with their wives if they (the men) do more housework. Is this the ultimate form of feminist blackmail, or what? 

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The Despised Stewardess

Friday, October 23, 2009

      Stewardesses are representative of all that was evil in our past. Just look at ‘em. Forget the smiles, the waves, the trim beauty. They are desperately unhappy, the aeronautical equivalent of sex slaves. In her latest encomium to feminism, which was discussed here, Gail Collins singles out stewardesses, and the employment standards of their bosses, [...]

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The Unfaithful Wife

Thursday, October 22, 2009

If any good has come from feminism it is a dawning appreciation of female sexual desire and its potential to destroy. The monogamous instincts of women have been vastly exaggerated in the popular imagination, even by Darwinian realists who pride themselves on their clear-eyed appraisals of human nature. Sexual liberation has revealed the full extent of feminine waywardness and [...]

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