“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Career women are evolutionary dead ends

by | Feb 9, 2014 | Uncategorized

Not every Strong Independent Woman is necessarily either a complete fool or completely crazy. There are some- albeit very very few- who recognise the costs that their choices impose: Earlier this week, a broadsheet newspaper ran a triumphalist piece by a 42-year-old...

Domain Query: Mo’ women, mo’ problems

by | Jan 31, 2014 | Uncategorized

The venerable Halfbreed had a question regarding my post on marriage: What are your thoughts on plural marriage? You know, sister wives?Let’s get the doctrinaire stuff out of the way right now: for reasons moral, economic, spiritual, and practical, I am...

Women in a masculine society

by | Jan 21, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized

One of the very common objections made by feminists (of the Jizzabel stripe) and white knights to the ideas and themes of the ‘Sphere is that our stated goal of promoting a society in which men are once more in charge would reduce women back to a state of...

C+= – the feminist programming language

by | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized

If you are at least somewhat conversant with a modern programming language- and in particular with C++, Java, or C#- then you’ll have some idea what I’m talking about when I say that this is quite possibly the funniest damn thing you’ve seen so...

Five problems with a very obvious solution

by | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized

Normally I rather enjoy Cracked.com’s highly irreverent and thoroughly offbeat commentary on issues large and small. Recently, however, they published a list that purported to show how hard life is for women in the military, and I have to say that I got more...

That awful double standard

by | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized

A while back, a College-Educated Feminist and I were listening to a random selection of tracks (playing from a set of CDs she selected). A track by John Mayer came on. I think I made an offhand comment about Taylor Swift at some point during that song- something do to...

Gender equality is indeed a myth

by | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized

Yet for some reason, some bird named Beyonce Knowles is thoroughly puzzled as to why this vexing situation should exist: The Grammy-award winner signed the essay using her hyphenated married name, Beyonce Knowles-Carter.  ‘Humanity requires both men and...

Submission is good for women

by | Jan 11, 2014 | Uncategorized

Did you ever read Asterix comics as a kid? I did. I still do. There is one particular favourite of mine called Asterix and the Secret Weapon. It is one of the funniest and most brilliantly insightful jabs at feminism that you will ever see- and chances are that you...

“Doing the laundry is tiring”

by | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized

There are many good reasons to listen to NIGHTWISH: Floor Jansen Marco Hietala Floor Jansen The instrumental skill Floor Jansen The songwriting (when Tuomas Huolopainen doesn’t have his head stuck too far up his own ass, that is- see “Song of Myself”...