Concerning feminism on campus, the good news is that these places are increasingly irrelevant to real life. Many clever young men are going to trade school instead or are getting degrees online. These places make a lot of noise and headlines, but they are increasingly isolated echo chambers. As for trannies taking over women's sports, it's not my battle. Women are going to have to sort that one out for themselves. I'm just glad I married a sane, strong and sensible woman and have protected my kids from the insanity. The pendulum will swing back eventually, if only because we are facing the kind of hard times that don't give a damn what our pronouns are.
I read Heather Macdonald’s article at CJ and sent it to a friend who was a tenured professor of Spanish for 30+ years at Loyola. She wrote back, “women demand group obedience - it’s a tribal mentality.” Well, so much for the real meaning of “university!” The college campus has become one big day-care operation, run by, in NYU’s case a “trauma and bias” social worker, dispensing the current victimization blather, an epicenter of (mainly female) unresolved anger and grievance…all this portends continued chaos and uncertainty for the future of our society and our republic. I recommend anything and everything Camille Paglia has written on the subject! Tx Mark for adding Widburg’s take on Macdonald’s piece…
“Our present politicized, victim-obsessed multiculturalism has proved to be an abject failure—simply yet another ostentatious platform for the white bourgeoisie to expiate guilt for its own privilege and affluence.”
C Paglia - frm Salon.com, Enough of the Hillary Cult” - April 2016
The so-called Skripal Poisoning sure sounds sketchy. Either the Russians are very incompetent, or the Russians were framed.
And with the Jan 6 narrative lies proven by Tucker tonight showing to what degree the globalists / left/ Democrats / media LIE, and how the UK is on an anti Putin crusade, there is a motive.
I wondered "Why so much focus on this?" when news of the Skripal poisonings jumped out & dominated coverage for wks. Months? Stark confirmation that when they say "Look here!!!" we shd be looking elsewhere...
Once again we can look to Hollywood. "Wonder Woman" is portrayed as having more brawn than men. Followed by numerous films of women out performing men. Commercials show women and kids and even pets smarter than Dad.
Yep. And women infantry soldiers in all the UK military ads. Women are wonderful, but frontline soldiers they ain't. Notice the Wagner Group is wiping the floor with the Ukies, and not a single woman among them.
Milley went to Syria because the Zhou admin. has tasked the various admin. heads to visit Ukraine and Milley (who is unsupportive) had to have a backup plan.
That's a question that I wondered why no-one has asked: why does Taipei allow these visits? Whatever they think of Beijing, it would make sense to tell Pelosi et al to go to hell.
Growing up, boys were checked on their aggression but girls were unchecked on controlling their emotions. Results are epidemic - both toxic and canceled feminity.
LOL. My view is the brain is a computer hard drive divided into sectors. The sector for proper nouns especially is no longer accessible on instant recall.
The Revolution is a global operation. I have been following the going ons over in Ireland throughout the WuHu Flu madness. It just keeps going, and going, and going.
I don't think it is global. We - even here - still believe we're the centre of the human universe, the "international community". We aren't. There are whole areas around the world that don't buy into our insanity. And many of these areas are up and coming.
Great stuff. Causes so many thoughts to spring to mind that I struggle to comment coherently. As a quick, slightly off topic anecdote that supports the feminization of America, I give you this observation.
I played college football waaay back in the 80's. Love the sport because it and all the lessons it provided me basically saved my life. After my military service I became involved in youth football as a coach. Loved every minute of it except, dealing with what I came to believe was the single largest problem in the sport - aside from head injury but that's another story. The problem was what I termed "football mom's" and by that I don't mean to disparage the one's who love the game. I mean the one's who, prior to every season I would have to sit with and plead with them to let little Johnnie play one more year. That the vast majority would play youth and high school, learn great lessons that were hard to find anywhere else and then move on to productive, healthy lives. They weren't going to be movie extras in Walking Dead remakes just because they play a game of violence for a few short years. I could go on and on. For me it is one of the little issues that, when added into everything else going on in American life leads me to believe that it isn't just the feminization of academia that is killing us. The attack on football has been very, very hard on youth football in my area.
By the way, to any female readers of this great substack I wish to add - I've been married for 32 years to a women who loves football, hockey and any other sport of violence. She is also feminine as hell and I love her for it. There are millions of women just like her too!! We raised a daughter who likes to mix it up as well so we're doing our level best to counter the wacko-nuts out there.
As a further aside - my wife is always kidding me about how I can't remember sh** and says its my years as an offensive lineman that did it. For the record, I don't care! Loved every damn minute of it.
It truly is a shame that youth football, in particular, is dwindling away. As you note, the life lessons are incomparable. I'd played most other sports as a kid, but there's nothing for a kid like the sense of teamwork (brotherhood, if you will) in the coordinated physicality of football.
Maybe the "safetyism" we've seen from the late-'80s on in the raising of the Millennials (those "Baby on Board" signs were the clarion call--as if I'm going to be less inclined to crash my car into you by knowing that) has as much to do with it as feminization does, but, perhaps, they're two sides of the same coin. Problem is, we've lost a generation of "football dads" who know the genuine value of the sport firsthand to be inclined to introduce it to their kids. I would think that, at the youth level--before kids really start bulking up and hitting the weights to become the size-and-speed freaks that were less common in our day--football is FAR safer now due to advances in equipment and technology. Seeing youth helmets today, I would have killed for something that didn't make my head rattle when the gel filling got cold come mid-October.
P.S. Don't worry about forgetting stuff--we all know that the O-Line was always the brains of the operation and that we Big Uglies have forgotten more than those so-called "skilled positions" will ever know. 😊
You can’t remember because your old. Like the rest of us. Has nothing to do with football. Get used to it. I read somewhere that it’s only senility of you can’t remember that you don’t remember.
I once read a German study that you can't remember when you're old because you have too many things in your head and the filing system gets cluttered. Now todays youngsters don't have that problem. Maybe not even when they get old...
That's the modern view--truth is simply the possession of power. It's evolutionary. This is why I have no patience for people who dismiss philosophy as a waste of time. They're simply enablers of our current masters because they intellectually disarm those who listen to them. That attitude is quintessentially American in a traditional sense. The modern view is that of our rulers.
My question remains: I get it that the neoncons need war, but why are they ensuring they will lose it by provoking the whole world?
Concerning feminism on campus, the good news is that these places are increasingly irrelevant to real life. Many clever young men are going to trade school instead or are getting degrees online. These places make a lot of noise and headlines, but they are increasingly isolated echo chambers. As for trannies taking over women's sports, it's not my battle. Women are going to have to sort that one out for themselves. I'm just glad I married a sane, strong and sensible woman and have protected my kids from the insanity. The pendulum will swing back eventually, if only because we are facing the kind of hard times that don't give a damn what our pronouns are.
I read Heather Macdonald’s article at CJ and sent it to a friend who was a tenured professor of Spanish for 30+ years at Loyola. She wrote back, “women demand group obedience - it’s a tribal mentality.” Well, so much for the real meaning of “university!” The college campus has become one big day-care operation, run by, in NYU’s case a “trauma and bias” social worker, dispensing the current victimization blather, an epicenter of (mainly female) unresolved anger and grievance…all this portends continued chaos and uncertainty for the future of our society and our republic. I recommend anything and everything Camille Paglia has written on the subject! Tx Mark for adding Widburg’s take on Macdonald’s piece…
A nugget from Paglia:
“Our present politicized, victim-obsessed multiculturalism has proved to be an abject failure—simply yet another ostentatious platform for the white bourgeoisie to expiate guilt for its own privilege and affluence.”
C Paglia - frm Salon.com, Enough of the Hillary Cult” - April 2016
CP: "If women ruled the world, we'd still be living in caves. But caves with beautifully decorated curtains"
Substitute “university” for “multiculturalism “
The so-called Skripal Poisoning sure sounds sketchy. Either the Russians are very incompetent, or the Russians were framed.
And with the Jan 6 narrative lies proven by Tucker tonight showing to what degree the globalists / left/ Democrats / media LIE, and how the UK is on an anti Putin crusade, there is a motive.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/jan-6-footage-shows-cops-bringing-qanon-shaman-to-senate-floor/
I wondered "Why so much focus on this?" when news of the Skripal poisonings jumped out & dominated coverage for wks. Months? Stark confirmation that when they say "Look here!!!" we shd be looking elsewhere...
I guess they ran out of balloons to shoot down. Oh, and Monkey Pox didn't grab us either.
Once again we can look to Hollywood. "Wonder Woman" is portrayed as having more brawn than men. Followed by numerous films of women out performing men. Commercials show women and kids and even pets smarter than Dad.
Yep. And women infantry soldiers in all the UK military ads. Women are wonderful, but frontline soldiers they ain't. Notice the Wagner Group is wiping the floor with the Ukies, and not a single woman among them.
Milley went to Syria because the Zhou admin. has tasked the various admin. heads to visit Ukraine and Milley (who is unsupportive) had to have a backup plan.
Taiwan Convinces Kevin McCarthy To Downgrade Taipei Trip To Avoid Angering China
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-gets-kevin-mccarthy-downgrade-taiwan-trip-avoid-angering-china
That's a question that I wondered why no-one has asked: why does Taipei allow these visits? Whatever they think of Beijing, it would make sense to tell Pelosi et al to go to hell.
Growing up, boys were checked on their aggression but girls were unchecked on controlling their emotions. Results are epidemic - both toxic and canceled feminity.
LOL. My view is the brain is a computer hard drive divided into sectors. The sector for proper nouns especially is no longer accessible on instant recall.
The Revolution is a global operation. I have been following the going ons over in Ireland throughout the WuHu Flu madness. It just keeps going, and going, and going.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnwaters/p/irelands-undeclared-autocoup?r=7xare&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I don't think it is global. We - even here - still believe we're the centre of the human universe, the "international community". We aren't. There are whole areas around the world that don't buy into our insanity. And many of these areas are up and coming.
Wow
Matt Gaetz needs to expand his resolution to include Ukraine as well as Syria.
Great stuff. Causes so many thoughts to spring to mind that I struggle to comment coherently. As a quick, slightly off topic anecdote that supports the feminization of America, I give you this observation.
I played college football waaay back in the 80's. Love the sport because it and all the lessons it provided me basically saved my life. After my military service I became involved in youth football as a coach. Loved every minute of it except, dealing with what I came to believe was the single largest problem in the sport - aside from head injury but that's another story. The problem was what I termed "football mom's" and by that I don't mean to disparage the one's who love the game. I mean the one's who, prior to every season I would have to sit with and plead with them to let little Johnnie play one more year. That the vast majority would play youth and high school, learn great lessons that were hard to find anywhere else and then move on to productive, healthy lives. They weren't going to be movie extras in Walking Dead remakes just because they play a game of violence for a few short years. I could go on and on. For me it is one of the little issues that, when added into everything else going on in American life leads me to believe that it isn't just the feminization of academia that is killing us. The attack on football has been very, very hard on youth football in my area.
By the way, to any female readers of this great substack I wish to add - I've been married for 32 years to a women who loves football, hockey and any other sport of violence. She is also feminine as hell and I love her for it. There are millions of women just like her too!! We raised a daughter who likes to mix it up as well so we're doing our level best to counter the wacko-nuts out there.
As a further aside - my wife is always kidding me about how I can't remember sh** and says its my years as an offensive lineman that did it. For the record, I don't care! Loved every damn minute of it.
It truly is a shame that youth football, in particular, is dwindling away. As you note, the life lessons are incomparable. I'd played most other sports as a kid, but there's nothing for a kid like the sense of teamwork (brotherhood, if you will) in the coordinated physicality of football.
Maybe the "safetyism" we've seen from the late-'80s on in the raising of the Millennials (those "Baby on Board" signs were the clarion call--as if I'm going to be less inclined to crash my car into you by knowing that) has as much to do with it as feminization does, but, perhaps, they're two sides of the same coin. Problem is, we've lost a generation of "football dads" who know the genuine value of the sport firsthand to be inclined to introduce it to their kids. I would think that, at the youth level--before kids really start bulking up and hitting the weights to become the size-and-speed freaks that were less common in our day--football is FAR safer now due to advances in equipment and technology. Seeing youth helmets today, I would have killed for something that didn't make my head rattle when the gel filling got cold come mid-October.
P.S. Don't worry about forgetting stuff--we all know that the O-Line was always the brains of the operation and that we Big Uglies have forgotten more than those so-called "skilled positions" will ever know. 😊
Amen to that.
You can’t remember because your old. Like the rest of us. Has nothing to do with football. Get used to it. I read somewhere that it’s only senility of you can’t remember that you don’t remember.
Remember what?
It becomes difficult to recall simple every day words. Especially names of people and things. It’s extremely annoying
I get that too, Dave! :)
Very true, Richard. :-)
I once read a German study that you can't remember when you're old because you have too many things in your head and the filing system gets cluttered. Now todays youngsters don't have that problem. Maybe not even when they get old...
That's the modern view--truth is simply the possession of power. It's evolutionary. This is why I have no patience for people who dismiss philosophy as a waste of time. They're simply enablers of our current masters because they intellectually disarm those who listen to them. That attitude is quintessentially American in a traditional sense. The modern view is that of our rulers.
Toxic Feminism should be repeated over and over whenever discussing leftist women. Doesn't this adhere to Alinsky's rules for radicals?