“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.”

Now this, I would pay to see

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey had an opportunity to run her mouth off a bit, and didn’t disappoint at all: Ronda Rousey thinks she could beat Cain Velasquez, so Floyd Mayweather should be no problem, right?  The UFC women’s...

The real point of deadlifting

Yeah, I know, it’s baby weight. And no doubt she bought those gloves because they match her purse… I love deadlifting. It is my single favourite exercise, and I genuinely look forward to my long Sunday workout sessions in the gym where I always try to...

The Belldandy effect

Recently the exasperated rantings of a woman with an absurdly large nose over the seemingly ridiculous expectations that men have of their ideal woman got me thinking about something I wrote a while back regarding what it means to be a truly beautiful woman. The...

The “perfect” girlfriend?

A (female) writer for the Daily Telegraph (with a ridiculously oversized nose- you might want to look into that, dear) gets unduly exercised over the results of a survey of some 2,000 men to define the “perfect” girlfriend: It wasn’t even my boyfriend who...

Attitude

One of the first lessons that a novice learns when encountering the Manosphere is the concept of “masculine frame”. It is not a difficult idea to understand, at least in theory- you stand, walk, and talk with confidence and strength, you give off an air of...

How to fail completely on a date

Despite the rude things I say about women and feminists- both online and in person- my sister and I remain very close, which is why whenever she comes over we try to spend some time together and go out for a nice dinner somewhere at least once. The other night we were...

From the Meetup: Not everyone wants to be free

(This is the second in a series of posts dealing with my thoughts on various topics that came up during our Singapore meetup late last year. As always comments and criticism are of course welcomed, especially from the guys who were there. Oh, and I owe one of the guys...

Career women are evolutionary dead ends

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...

The false refuge of Utopia

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. — G. K. Chesterton Among the many- far too many- books that I find myself reading at any given time, one of the most interesting,...