Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
We aren’t trying to make married or household life especially painful for them, that’s just a byproduct. No, our damage is much more passive. We’re establishing a new catalog of cultural norms according to which masculine contributions cannot be appreciated.
It’s damaging to women, partly because the male contributions become more difficult to acquire both in quality and in quantity. But also because in order to diminish appreciation of what is masculine, you have to diminish appreciation for what is extraordinary — which means we all have to be mediocre, male and female alike.
And as Bernard Chapin points out, our journalism starts to look like editorialism.
Members of the mainstream media not only cherish alternative lifestyles; they also wish to purge everything from our culture that prevents their realization. This was evident on Father’s Day when the New York Times Magazine commemorated the holiday by placing the misandric query, “Will Dad Ever Do His Share?,” on its cover. Inside is a lengthy expose by Lisa Belkin on this subject entitled “When Mom and Dad Share It All.” Those familiar with the contents of the Gray Lady will be unmoved by yet another attempt to denigrate fathers. After all, fulfilling the needs of politically correct oppression merchants practically has become the paper’s central purpose.
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The author’s message is gaudily apparent in her description of one family’s dynamic:They would create their own model, one in which they were parenting partners. Equals and peers. They would work equal hours, spend equal time with their children, take equal responsibility for their home. Neither would be the keeper of the mental to-do lists; neither of their careers would take precedence. Both would be equally likely to plan a birthday party or know that the car needs oil or miss work for a sick child or remember (without prompting) to stop at the store for diapers and milk. … There are Marcs and Amys scattered throughout the country, and the most interesting thing about them is that they are so very interesting. What they suggest, after all, is simple. Gender should not determine the division of labor at home.
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Progressives use conformity — and any other trick or device they can quote or acquire — as a means to convince the general population that their natural inclinations are maladaptive. Radicals are only too happy to save the enlightened by reconfiguring them in their own image.
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…while female advancement is a sacred venture for institutions like the New York Times, it is not for the whole of men. Shared care might well make marriage easier for wives and offer a chance to “have it all,” yet its impact on husbands is punitive. With the marriage rate recently having fallen below 50 percent in America due to fewer and fewer men consenting to tie the knot, the timing of this expose was both ironic and misguided. That an outlet — which boasts of publishing “all the news that’s fit to print” — is so oblivious of current events evidences the way that bias has corrupted their mission.Like the late film critic Pauline Kael, the Crate and Barrel elitists who run the New York Times dwell in a “special world” and carefully avoid interactions with the general population. Recall Kael’s remarks concerning the reelection of Richard Nixon: “I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.” Sadly, we can feel her kind too, particularly when they are attempting to alter the course of our lives.
Hooters. That’s my solution. It’s like garlic to Dracula. Just set your weary ass down, order a hot plate of wings and a cold pitcher of brew, and if there are any “Crate and Barrel elitists” around they’ll disappear in a cloud of dust and screeching and bitching about “orange shorts oppressive to women flaunting skimpy blah blah blah” and out they go.
And then you won’t be feeling ’em.
This is the problem with all efforts to re-define cultural norms…at least the absolutist ones, the ones that can’t achieve fifty-one percent and just be done with it. To achieve totality, you have to reject volunteerism and instead opt for coercion and force.
All around, too. You have to force men to clean toilets — and then you have to force women to settle for the job men do cleaning the toilets. It’s doomed to fail.
But that’s okay because it aspires to fail. If Lisa Belkin and her kind were successful in forcing men to act like women and vice-versa, then on Father’s Day next year there’d be nothing to write about. The goal really doesn’t have much to do with reforming us; the goal is perpetual bitching for the purpose of selling newspapers.
Chapin closes with an uppercut:
One need not be a psychologist or an economist to fathom that if you punish behaviors you get less of them. The already excessive demands and expectations of the modern woman are being heightened by the New York Times, which will only serve to further convince males that marriage is not worth the risk.
That’s the problem right there. As long as people opt-out and opt-in, they’ll always act according to their own interests. And…Belkin can keep on bitching.
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