Why The Gender Revolution Is Permanently Stalled

Joan C. Williams writes:

Masculinity holds the key to understanding why the gender revolution has stalled. As long as men continue to feel threatened by the possibility of being perceived as wimps and wusses unless they live up to the norms of conventional masculinity, we can expect little economic progress for women.

Addendum: as long as women continue to feel attracted to "conventional masculinity," we can expect little change in men's values. Since people can't help what they attracted to, this will never happen.

Islamophobia: A Working Definition

The irrational fear that people who irrationally fear Christians, Jews, Hindus, Bahá'ís, giant Buddha statues, apostates, women, gays, alcohol, free speech, textual criticism, public displays of affection, pigs, dogs, cartoons and teddy bears might be worth fearing.

See also: Amboy Times List of Things That Offend Muslims.

Jesus Forgot To Tell You

Love not forged in the fire of hate is doomed to expire.

Can't Stan Ya

Jews hate Hitler. Armenians hate the Young Turks. But do the majority of Russians hate Stalin? Do the majority of Chinese hate Mao? Not as far as I can tell. Human beings are inveterate tribalists. We don't mind being oppressed as long as it's by one of our own and in our name. So of course even non-fundamentalist Afghanis prefer the Taliban to NATO occupation. Abandon Afghanistan (and Pakistan) to rot in their stone age existence. Limiting their malfeasance requires drone attacks and spy networks, not the sacrifice of Western lives. Give India carte blanche to do whatever it wants in the region. Accept only women refugees on condition they don't bring their menfolk. Come back in a hundred years and see if things have improved. If they haven't, try again in another hundred.

Ten Better Places To Seek Religious Enlightenment Than Afghanistan

Warsame admits he attended an Al Qaeda camp. But Erlinder insists his client was mainly there to teach English to nurses working for the Taliban, recognized internationally at the time as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. The Osama encounter occurred when the Al Qaeda leader spoke at a dinner attended by 75 people, including Warsame. Erlinder adds that Warsame insists the man he sent money to was not an Al Qaeda member.

“He went there to seek (religious) enlightenment,” Erlinder says of Warsame’s time in Afghanistan. “He found that (Al Qaeda) were engaged in acts that he didn’t support and he came back before 9/11 happened.”
- Terrorist supporter might make Toronto his home, Toronto Star

10. New Jersey
9. Death Valley
8. Cobra Island
7. Guyana
6. Magog
5. Latveria
4. North Korea
3. The Congo
2. Skull Island
1. Any fucking place

Jews, Gentiles, Blacks, Whites, We All Have Our Kampf

I rarely watch Saturday Night Live (because it's not funny). However, I caught a bit of Kanye West's prog-rap tribute to King Crimson. One line: "In this white man's world / we the ones chosen." I wish I could be rich and successful and still blame my problems on a Sauron-like oppressor. Unfortunately, as Rick Sanchez has pointed out, I hardly belong to an oppressed minority. If I was like the rest of the majority, I could blame my problems on the Jews. But being a Jew myself, to do so would just be in bad taste.

A confession: if I wasn't a Jew, I might be an anti-Semite. In fact, I've sometimes thought God made me a Jew so I couldn't be an anti-Semite, or that I was an anti-Semite in another life. Anti-Semitism is concentrated misanthropy. Ah, to give my inchoate resentments a singular name and face. Paul Gauguin: "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." Life is too big, narrow the focus. Manic Street Preachers: "Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul." Jews call it Yetzer Hara, the evil impulse.

Hitler, Kanye West and Rick Sanchez: little men made big who still think like little people. Fair warning: being the establishment doesn't make you happy. As a Jew, I should be happy that my people have managed to destroy Western civilization through open borders, civil rights, cultural Marxism and jazz music. But there's still a hole in my soul where the misery pours in. Did Jews control the world when Kafka was around? But he was unhappy too. "There is infinite hope, but not for us."

Angry black men, you are not Asiatics, Moors, Egyptians, Ethiopians or the real Israelites. You are descendants of Guineamen who got a raw deal and now have little to complain about in the grand scheme of things. But the grand scheme of things is hard to suss out from down here in the shit with Hitler's worm in your soul. Even though if any people were chosen by God it was certainly us and not you, I still love you as His fellow distorted images. And Rick Sanchez and anti-Semites too.

We Are All People Of Colour

Race exists. It may be (to some extent) a social construct, but so is the state. Try not paying your taxes for a year. To be ignorant of reality is to possess what Marxists called false consciousness. Therefore it's a good thing that, as demonstrated by sites like Stuff White People Like, white people are coming to gain some racial consciousness. People without perspective assume they are the default and everyone else is other. Like only other people have accents, only other people are "ethnics," only other people are "of colour" (white is a colour), only other people have social morays and ridiculous customs.

Racial consciousness doesn't necessarily mean racial hatred. Chris Rock is racially conscious, but hardly hateful. To be racially conscious is simply to acknowledge the reality that we are not disembodied Cartesian egos. We possess bodies and faces. Genes aside, our bodies and faces, especially the way other people react to them and culture portrays them, affect how we interact with the world. I don't know if black people are loud because media and culture tells them to be loud, or because they are predisposed to be like that. (Something to do with bigger dicks?) Probably it's a mix of both. Either way, acknowledge the fact and move on.

"Loud" isn't a positive or a negative. It's how you use it. You can be a loud, vivacious personality everyone loves, or a loud, obnoxious bully everyone wants to kill. I'm too humble to claim racial superiority. As a Jew, I could accurately say "nya, nya, my race has a higher IQ than any other." But I don't think IQ is the be-all end-all of being a good person. A high IQ doesn't make you wise (although it certainly predisposes you in that direction). We're a smart people, but we're also neurotic, self-centered and often loud ourselves. We possess, as we say, foibles. Acknowledge the fact, as all good comedians do, and move on.

When we acknowledge the fact, we can, to a large degree, alter the facts. I can try, and do try, to be less neurotic and self-centered (loud isn't my particular problem). I'm always going to be the bookish type, for which I blame centuries of inbreeding to create elite Talmudic scholars, but how I deal with it is my own measure of freedom. As Mussolini said in his saner days, "Race! It is a feeling, not a reality; ninety-five per cent, at least, is a feeling." I can do with that ninety-five (or fifty, or sixty, or seventy, or eighty) percent feeling what I will.

The problem with racists is that they're determinists. They deny what religion tells us (and it ain't the world was created in six days): people can transcend themselves and so defy the laws of culture. Abraham was once just another Iraqi. The problem with "race is a construct" PC types is that they aren't realistic. They deny what science tells us: people can transcend themselves and defy the laws of culture, but they can't defy the laws of gravity. If you aren't realistic reality is going to hit you on the way down. It doesn't matter what your race is.