by Didact | Jul 25, 2015 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
This picture will be immediately familiar to you if you have ever purchased a box of cereal. It is, as I surely need not tell you, the ubiquitous US Department of Agriculture’s Food Pyramid. It summarises in a handy-dandy family-friendly graphic what our...
by Didact | Jul 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you have not yet read Jonathan Gotschall’s excellent book, The Professor in the Cage, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I finished it a few days ago, and I’m very pleased to say that I have finally found a book that clearly articulates exactly why it...
by Didact | May 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
My Jargon is Better Than Yours! Anyone who has dipped a toe or three into the Androsphere and its accumulated wisdom will be instantly familiar with the terms Alpha, Beta, and Omega. These words are used to define a sexual, and in certain cases a socio-sexual,...
by Didact | May 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
The GOP’s 2016 electoral strategy George W. “Compassionate Conservative” Bush’s brother apparently seems to think that having yet another progressive Republican cast in the mould of Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain leading the US would be a...
by Didact | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Cultural insensitivity can be hilariously awesome AM sent over an interesting link to a Cracked.com article last night that talked about five unpleasant realities of visiting India as a young Western woman. It is worth reading through all the way, if only to get an...
by Didact | Apr 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
The other day, Didact Sr. and I were having a conversation in which my father uttered perhaps the most unusual words I’ve ever heard him say. We were discussing my sister and her rather irritating self-centred tendencies. It was at about the point where I was...
by Didact | Apr 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Recently I finished up Karen Traviss’s final book of the Kilo-Five Trilogy, titled HALO: Mortal Dictata. The book itself was interesting enough, I suppose; at any rate, her work in the HALOverse did a lot to raise my dismally poor opinion of her work,...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
The other day I wrote up a post aboutKingsman, possibly the best movie released in at least the last six months (and maybe even better than American Sniper), and one of the absolute best movies that I’ve ever seen. That movie delivers home truths...
by Didact | Apr 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Back before I came across the Manosphere, I did things along the lines of what the guy in this video did when on a blind date with a “female” bodybuilder: (I use quotes simply because female bodybuilders have to take serious amounts of testosterone in the...
by Didact | Mar 31, 2015 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
The CrossFit Craze continues to provide LOTS of material for the rest of us to laugh at: Honestly the only part of that video that wasn’t hilariously funny was the bit where the weightlifter failed to put up that Atlas stone. That wasn’t funny at all- I...
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