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Daily Archives: July 31st, 2010

Debates of the Week

  I RECOMMEND a few of the ongoing discussions here from this week. This entry includes insights from male and female commenters on how men can deal with feminists in their personal lives and how to handle women in general and remain in charge. This discussion about the men’s movement is long, heated and interesting. Two entries, here and here, consider Christianity and the culture [...]

The Strange Mortality of the Victorians

  LYDIA SHERMAN writes: Our daughter has finally got fed up with the expensive museum plaques which claim that boys were not allowed to cook and girls were not allowed to shoot before the 20th century enlightenment. We went to one historical museum where a plaque said, and I quote,  Women’s clothes in particular were so [...]

Courage and Sweetness

  LAURA GRACE ROBINS, at her site Full of Grace, Seasoned with Salt, writes: To be noble the man must be manly. To be noble the woman must be womanly. Independently of the virtues required equally of both sexes, such as truth, uprightness, candor, fidelity, honor, we look in man for somewhat more of wisdom, [...]