Of course, I’m being facetious. Somewhat.
Actually, Roissy/Chateau could probably have a good deal of fun with this, given the scenario. You’ve got the lawyer husband pressuring his black client to have sex with his…er…very feminist-looking (that is honestly about the nicest descriptor of her looks I can give, and I’m sure most of you know what I mean) wife. In Game terms, the husband sounds like a hopeless gamma (who else but such men entertain cuckold fantasies?), and the wife a cold, sneering witch/harpy.
But then again, maybe they’re nice people…who just happen to try and persuade the occasional client to give the wife a good rogering. Happens all the time, right?
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It was only a matter of time, really. Most sane people who put an ounce of thought into the matter could have figured out that if a natural/genetic component to homosexuality was ever identified, a treatment to correct against it would soon become available.
And so it has come to pass, though not directly.
What’s actually at issue here is a hormonal treatment being offered to women to correct genital malformations or abnormalities in their unborn children. Arguably, there’s nothing wrong with such a treatment being offered, and it’s easy to see the arguments for it. Physical abnormalities of any kind are often difficult to live with, and can have psychological and other health ramifications for a person both early and later on in life.
Here’s the problem, though: “The treatment might reduce the likelihood that a female with the condition will be homosexual. Further, it seems to increase the chances that she will have what are considered more feminine behavioral traits.”
And so, it’s a crisis…that a girl would act like a girl, and want to marry a boy later on in life. What a waste, when she could have been butch and a lesbian! Are these people for real?
Vox, of course, raises two valid points:
Defective is not synonymous with bad. Blind people aren’t bad and yet scientists seek to give them sight. Deaf people aren’t bad and yet scientists seek to help them hear. So, there is no need to condemn gays in any way in order for scientists to help them achieve sexual normality.
Homosexuality, to the extent that it is influenced by nature and genes, is a defect, an abnormality…not unlike deafness, or blindness, or a malformed limb. Yes, there is also a moral dimension to it, but even if we set that aside or argue that it doesn’t count, the fact that homosexuality is the result of an error does not change.
And anyhow:
There’s really no rational reason for this to become a political issue anyhow, not in a country where unborn children can be murdered at will by their mothers. It would be impossible to convincingly argue that a parent has the legal right to kill a child but not therapeutically de-homo one.
Realistically, that’s what the choice will come down to. If it ever becomes possible to test for the orientation of an unborn child, expect that orientationally defective children, in the absence of a corrective hormonal treatment, will be aborted in greater numbers than orientationally normative children…much like unborn girls are (in many places in the world) aborted far more often than are unborn boys.
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…and again, it’s the mothers at the forefront of yet another push to hyper-sexualize pre-pubescent girls.
Am I the only one still confused by the fact that we would permit a stranger in a salon to wax an eight-year old’s pubic region, and still maintain laws against child pornography?
Yes, we know, the headline to this post makes us want to gag, too, but apparently it’s a real thing that’s happening in waxing salons around the country. Now moms are taking their prepubescent daughters to get their legs and bikini lines waxed.
“But young girls don’t even have bikini lines,” you say. Right. But according to some aestheticians, waxing pre-pubescent legs and pubis’ helps prevent future hair growth. Oh. Well, in that case …
How can I put this delicately?
Mothers and salon workers: when you have made the editors of a site called “The Frisky” — a blog which does for sexy gossip and flirty fashion trends what Engadget does for technology — go “eeew”, you’re doing it really fucking wrong.
Bonus ickery:
And Wanda Stawczyk, who runs Wanda’s European Skin Care in New York, told The New York Post that she thinks “in 10 years, waxing children will be like taking them to the dentist or putting braces on their teeth.” We hope not.
Yeah, because removing nascent pubic hair is totally the same thing as ensuring proper oral hygiene and health, right down to the increased risk of heart disease for those who don’t wax.
There are things to which “fuck off” seems about the only appropriate response. This is one of them.
Now keep in mind, again, that this is The Frisky I’m quoting from here. This is a site that pushes articles like “How to Eat Sexy” and other such things. And they are grossed right out by this:
Waxing sexualizes their young bodies, and emphasizes conforming to traditional standards of beauty over being a well-rounded, happy girl. But that doesn’t seem to matter to some moms, like Monica Longworth, who took her young daughter Glynis for waxing when she was only in the second grade. She noticed her daughter was “a hairy little girl” and that the blond hair on her legs was a “bit too thick.”
A “bit too thick” for whom?
To that last remark: Exactly. Just. Effing. Exactly.
And it’s always the mothers at the forefront of these disgusting trends, speeding their daughters ahead into a hyper-sexualized future in the hope of…what, exactly? Do they want their kid to be any of these women but the first two? Do they want their kid to be this sort of slut (it’s not a nice word, but it’s the only word)?
Because that’s probably what’s in store.
(hat tip)
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From Creative Minority Report:
And here’s a little thought for you — If “Hi Mommy” is scary to you maybe you’re the scary one. Just a thought.
That about sums things up, doesn’t it?
Not that Parenting isn’t hard or even, at times, frightening…it is, and it is. But it’s also exactly what we, men and women alike, were built to be. Men and women are made to make more men and women, by design, as is all that fun stuff we like to do in bedrooms…or wherever else.
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Well, arguably…yes, at least if suicide rates are taken into account and actually count for anything.
Maetenloch’s post mentions, of course, that according to folks who actually study such obscure and hard-to-quantify concepts as “national happiness,” it’s usually European nations that end up top-ranked. The question posed against this is a simple one: if they’re so freakin’ happy, why do they kill themselves so much more often?
It is almost as though happiness is not something which stems from material possessions and comforts!
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I guess it was right all along. Pity, too…I stopped wearing it because I got teased. (I was twelve at the time, and maybe a tad too sensitive.)
So, gents: wear red. It’s apparently “visual catnip” for women
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…a misogynistic, violent (and sexually violent), rapacious, and abusive philosophy which is fundamentally incompatible with Western life and moral standards.
On the same hand, it sure makes it easy for a guy to run a brothel out of his mosque.
Important point to take away from this: Islam is a philosophy that is both barbaric to its core and completely alien to Western ways of thinking and moral codes. There really is no possibility of building up any kind of harmony between what passes for Western culture and what passes for Islamic culture; the two systems are in conflict by definition.
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Roissy has been flogging the concept of female hypergamy for a while now, and his latest arguments offer pretty convincing support for the principle. For the un-initiated, the concept of female hypergamy is kind of like serial monogamy: women typically pursue just one partner at a time, but are consistently looking for the partner who is most alpha, and will “trade up” when opportunity arises…absent, that is, social and/or moral/religious constraints.
In history, as he points out, this is evidenced by the fact that the average human being has twice as many female ancestors as he does male ancestors; this suggests that in its pagan antiquity, humanity bred in a manner not dissimilar to the way most other animals do: the alpha males had their pick of females; lesser males went without, or at least with much less. Perhaps 80% of our ancient female ancestors bred; only about 40% of our male ancestors did the same.
Roissy notes that “the advent of Christianity, the nuclear family, and Western civilization in general” led to the flattening of this disparate ratio, noting that at the apex of this social model (which is now in decline), “90+% of men had nominally exclusive low risk sexual access to unmarried, childless women during the women’s prime fertile years.”
He also notes, prior to reporting these details, that there is a curious disparity in the distribution of genital herpes in the human population: about twice as many women are infected as compared to men. Even allowing for the fact that it’s easier for women to contract herpes, the only explanation for this disparity is that a comparatively smaller group of men is having sex with a somewhat larger group of women, a kind of modern fusion of the concept of a harem with the transience of one-night stands and short-term hookups. Indeed, Roissy even notes the emergence of a “hookup culture” on many college campuses, and notes that one of the principal drivers of this trend is the fact that women “are slutting it up because they fear competition from other women taking their men.”
In other words, as society trends away from its Christian norms, and related concepts like the primacy of family and sexual shaming, it isn’t marching boldly into some new secular utopian future. Sexually, at least, it is instead marching right back into the same pagan abyss that it pulled itself out of lo those many thousands of years ago. With the added bonus, I might add, of not breeding at all, rather than breeding in a genetically lop-sided fashion.
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For one, Han Solo never got hauled in for sexual harassment.
Apropos of which, Thursday raises a good point: “The problem with feminism is that it attacks both strategies men use to attract a mate: the lover and the provider.
You can’t win. The sexually aggressive masculine behaviour that women find attractive is not what makes for a good office worker in a mixed sex environment, while the presence of women in the workplace making their own money is what enables them to scorn men as providers.”
Han Solo, we can observe, essentially eschews such considerations in his often derisive, yet unquestionably masculine, dealings with Leia. In a modern office environment, labeling someone “Princess” only to come onto her half an hour later in a moment of working close by each other would make for a one-way trip: first to the Human Resources office, then to the manager’s office, and then to the door…done. Even though Leia very obviously fell for Han as a result of him being himself.
Fortunately, the Rebellion evidently saw fit not to waste resources on an HR department.
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By which I do not actually mean Luke Skywalker, but his papa. As portrayed by that whiny kid who couldn’t stop masturbating in that movie about a house and a dying guy, which also starred this girl.
This guy. Dark Lord of the Snivel.
For those unfamiliar with Game, a good example (and, conveniently, the category set I’ll make use of in classifying Dark Lord Emo here against Captain Shot First) can be found here. Because what I really care to talk about is not so much the comparative merits of these two men (if you can call pre-suit Vader/Anakin a “man” in any objective sense), but rather something which bugged me in a conversation I had with a friend earlier today.
Said conversation had to do with the romance subplot of the new Star Wars trilogy. Specifically, my friend said he actually quite liked it, noting its slight (*cough*) cheesiness which, in his view, was appropriate for the circumstances. It was, in his words, appropriate teasing…especially given that Padme was the manly one in the couple.
Which. Is. The. Problem.
I mean, consider: Anakin Skywalker has lived through a tough childhood. He’s quite possibly the most powerful Jedi in existence, apart from Yoda. He’s surrounded by prestige and power, and has been given a lot of both for himself. He could be brash and roguish if he wasn’t spiteful and self-importantly over-sensitive. He could — and should — be a man’s man. And to be fair, in The Clone Wars (the cartoon series set in the time frame between the second and third movies of the new trilogy) he is just that, as is pointed out here.
But in the movies? He’s Gamma, Delta at the very most. If he hadn’t gone all rageboy on those Sand People (is that a racial slur?), Padme would likely have passed him over for a date.
Compare with Han.
Totally in control.
I really can’t improve on Mr. BAD’s examination of Han, as relayed by Vox: “Sigma. Han has everything it takes to be a great leader but would rather not have to deal with the problems that come with it. He does as he pleases, doesn’t take crap, and no one can forget how Harrison Ford became an instant sex symbol when he returned Leia”s “I love you” with “I know”. He even has a [Beta] in Chewie following him around.”
Girls. Lap. This. Stuff. Up.
Let’s be clear here: I didn’t actually have a problem with the romance subplot in the new Star Wars movies per se; Luke and Leia had to come from somewhere, after all. The issue I have is with the actors — Hayden whatsisname and Natalie Portman. “There’s no there there,” as someone said; they have all the chemistry of a technical writing lecture. Even the ostensibly Game-y bits of their banter feels forced, and the negging is always in the wrong direction. Anakin should be negging Padme; instead, he mewls about and, yeah, mopes and whines.
Now, let’s be clear: Han did love Leia. But he also disdained her status in society, her political nature and royal prestige, and every rule and operational constraint that she and the Rebellion imposed on him. He infuriated Leia…and it lit her on fire for him. He did what he did, because it was what he wanted to do…and she couldn’t help but chase him. And when he wanted her, he had her. Whereas Anakin bowed and scraped at Padme’s feet, and she for whatever reason did accept him…but I suppose that might have had to do with the fact that she was also a lot older than him. A whiny Gamma can score a solid 8 or 9…if she’s getting on in years and is rushing to get into the business of motherhood while a slim possibility remains.
The key point here, and why Han (and thus the portrayal of the Han/Leia romance) is better: he’s a man. Where women are concerned, he…well, he basically acts like this: “It’s not so much that [he'll] tell her what she wants, but that [he'll] say what [he wants] and [gives] her the option of either complying with that or missing out on something enjoyable.” Or, in some cases, the option of either complying or conversing with Stormtroopers.
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