– Gavin McInnes has some excellent thoughts on feminism here. It does strike me that demeaning motherhood is just about the most anti-feminist thing one could possible do.
Also, I always find it strange that these articles about whether or not feminism has been good for women focus on women with jobs in the top 1-5%. If the picture isn’t absurdly clear for these women, it should absurdly clear that the rest of the women are getting screwed. Put another way, if your job as a high-powered executive or official isn’t obviously better than taking care of your kids, it should be super fucking clear that working as a cashier or an editor or a mortgage broker isn’t better.
Some interesting and related thoughts here and here.
– On romantic love.
– On old books.
– Derb and Alfred Clark on the ghettoization of American culture (and religion).
– Handle: “In the future, the Democrats will give us Jim Crow with a Progressive Face.” (HT)
– Without having read the full article, this statement strikes me as significant and totally correct: “What Do America’s College Students Want? They Want to Be Oppressed.”
– In totally unrelated news, World War T plods onwards.
– From a book review that may be of interest:
But however dark the view of human nature that inspired this mission, I fear it’s not dark enough. If Greene thinks that getting people to couch their moral arguments in a highly reasonable language will make them highly reasonable, I think he’s underestimating the cleverness and ruthlessness with which our inner animals pursue natural selection’s agenda.
– I don’t know whether you’re born gay or made that way, but I’m pretty that, at the extreme, it’s possible to be made that way.
– Scharlach: “Democracy is rule by idiots who vote for things that sound good to them at the time.”
– Remember a while ago when everybody was mocking British “austerity?” Yeah, me neither.
