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The rich and famous have such problems …
Feminism gives ground for very serious complaints. However, the social location of those whose voices get amplified by the media ensures that they mostly take the form of yuppie kvetching: there can’t be anything wrong with feminism that more and better feminism wouldn’t cure, so that things become what they should be for me. … More ...
Managed thought
Another snapshot of the self-destruction of thought: “Under this asinine rule we’d never have heard of Darwin.” The “asinine rule” is a quantitative measure of scholarly productivity UK bureaucrats use to allocate funds. Academics get high marks by treating “research” as an industrial product. That sort of research is normally worthless, but such questions fall … More ...
More sexual miscellany
One way to express the contradiction at the heart of “gay marriage” is that it demands the right to a special status—marriage—in the name of abolishing special status. The real effect of such demands is to eliminate marriage in favor of equal treatment of living arrangements. The sentimentality about how nice married life is, and … More ...
Thoughts on ‘sexual identity’ and ‘gay marriage’
The homosexual movement and its allies constantly use the phrase “sexual identity.” The phrase seems to be taken for granted, and is rarely explained and justified. It seems, though, to refer to the notion that our sexual habits and inclinations are fundamental to what we are, more so than religion or even sex in the … More ...
More on the collapse of the American mind
More bulletins on the willed abolition of the American mind:
- The ever-useful Phyllis Schlafly presents a list of instances of how zero-tolerance policies are applied in American schools. I’d give examples, but each is worse than the next—just read the column.
- And on the ever-exciting Rick Santorum front,
- Ben Shapiro, puzzling like so many over
“Social science” on prejudice etc.
John Ray, an anti-leftist social scientist in Australia, has a couple of blogs for his academic papers (here and here—I don’t know why he has two). Many of the papers are concerned with debunking social science theories advanced in support of efforts to combat what is called “bigotry.” What he finds in … More ...
Why such a crisis?
If the West is Catholic Christendom, and Catholic Christianity is the truth to which all roads lead, how come the West has evidently abandoned Catholicism and Christianity?
In a way, that’s like asking “why the Fall”? Men are inconstant. They aren’t satisfied with real goods that make demands and are always the same. They want … More ...
WCC: the same yesterday, and today, and forever
It’s good that the World Council of Churches wrote a letter to Castro regretting a “miscarriage of justice” in a trial of Cuban dissidents. It’s less good that they made a point of saying that their letter was “both friendly and firm in tone.” And the substance of their argument was genuinely bad: authorities should … More ...
Feelings, functions, and the sexes
The basic contention of this article on male and female brains is that women pay attention to personal relationships and feelings, men to impersonal systems and functions—not much of a surprise. The author doesn’t do much with the claim except observe that women are sensitive, caring and empathetic, while men are clueless and incipiently autistic. … More ...