by Didact | 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...
by Didact | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Uh… it does? As mentioned in my review of David P. Goldman’s book, How Civilisations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), the author, better known as the online conservative columnist Spengler, peppered that same book with a series of thought-provoking...
by Didact | Jan 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Need for Monogamous Marriage Reading through the reams of literature out there about the dangers and downsides of marriage, one is tempted to come to the conclusion that in the modern world, there is no such thing as a good reason to get married. Horror stories...
by Didact | 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...
by Didact | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Another weekend, another opportunity to post about introverted game. In all honesty, the reason I don’t post about game much- or as much as I should- is because I haven’t done very much about it for a while. That said, on Friday evening an opportunity came...
by Didact | 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...
by Didact | 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...
by Didact | 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...
by Didact | Jan 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
In 1998, Neil Peart, the greatest goddamn drummer of all ti- er, I mean, the drummer and lyricist of RUSH, lost his daughter in a freak accident as she was driving to college. Shortly after that, he lost his wife to cancer, though he maintained that she died from a...
by Didact | 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...
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