Bit of a big call that one. I am 69 and was raised surrounded by liberated girls/women in 1970, who read and lived Germain Greers; “The Female Eunuch”. Those young women abused me constantly for not wanting to have sex with them because “They were not beautiful” enough.
I got to school every day, stinking from the sex I was having with the doctors daughter. I didn’t wash that sex smell off….. if you understand my 12 year old emotional drive back then. I too was in the arts/ on stage/ writing the school magazine with the other arts people, whist being the captain of Footy teams..
But the AUSTRALIAN feminism hated me because I was Male! if you where creative at all, you were a “Fucking Poofta!”. I was constantly harassed by Gay men/boys, who left tearful because I wouldn’t have sex with them.
I’ve had 3 wives and children, and am today a Sole Parent raising a daughter for 13 years, with no women in my life at all..
Last week, my 15 y/old daughters cooking class set up a commercial restaurant project with a menu. My waitress/Waiter was a boy with a moustache who’s name tag said “Emma”. I thought to myself “You have a moustache and you’re Emma?“
The whole of the Australian Psyche has become piss weak; and even commenting on this “politically correct” miss gendering psycho babble is an arrestable offence in AUS now.
My daughters boy friend is the rugby hero, and they don’t have sex! Some thing has changed.
I have been sued by the govt for 3 houses, all built by myself, by hand, and the divorce courts have left me penniless, where all those women now own my houses. It’s OK. I’ve earned another huge house for myself over the last 15 years… but no Gendered parasites admitted to this house.
I get what you are suggesting here, but I think you have a blind spot regarding the failure of feminism and what has happened to all those girls who wanna be boys.
I empathize more than you might imagine. I, too, have horror stories and if I scratch too deep in that area, the anger comes flooding out, so I dance gingerly around it. In Texas, men generally sigh and say, "The next time I meet a woman I want to marry, I'll just buy her a house and walk away." The Western "family" courts have done more damage to the family, than just about any other institution.
Ultimately, the blame falls on Edward Bernays and the Madison Ave. gang for launching an all-out psychological war against males. It began during WW2, with things like the Rosia the Riveter campaign that drove women out of the house and into the workforce, and instilled dissatisfaction with the traditional roles that women had building and maintaining society. There are so many facets to the war on women that it would take a book to really dive into them. To stay within my self-imposed 1,000-word limit here, I had to focus on men, where I have some expertise. I would happily post a guest article by any women who could offer insight into their own struggles and views.
Thanks for your comment, and I am overjoyed and gratified that you have obviously raised a fine young woman, who will be at the forefront of the coming re-alignment.
As a woman who is "deeply analytical, intensely loyal, and emotionally disciplined", I don't understand women either. And yes, after observing the behavior of women once they get a little power, I agree that it is time for men to stand up and take charge for all our sakes.
Great to have your perspective here! Dare I say you agree with my assessment, which makes me think I am on the right track with both sexes. When you say "take charge," I would add that men should and must be in charge of civilization, while women have an equally vital role in taking charge of society, re: my definition of them. Manners and civil behavior are, in my opinion, the realm of women, while the framework for surviving and thriving is the male realm. I certainly don't mean to say that women can't be analytical, loyal and disciplined, but rather my point is to lambast the males who have tossed these qualities in favor of an artificial set of qualities drilled into us by marketers and The Message. This topic is massive and the war on sex roles is deeply buried in our social fabric. It will take a lot of effort on all our parts to isolate and extract it from our culture, and good folks like you are a key factor in success.
If you are familiar with Alice Baileys ten-point strategy for a new world order you will see the beginnings of it! I will say that there were never any images of the tuff western cowboys presented as reality. Two eastern European Jews actually romanticized the movie cowboys. The truth is that they were white, black, brown, toothless, poor, and dressed verry different than the slick phony western movie cowboys. John Wayne was a draft dodger in WW 2 and received a deferment in exchange for doing government propaganda work, Regan was the same! We booed him off the stage in Hawaii when he came out in fatigues, because some of us knew the truth, so I would not present the men of yesteryear as the movie cowboys. Teddy Rosevelt had a slick western outfit made in New York for his little western adventure that was as phony as he was! What really happened to the males you and I actually remember were castrated by liberal agendas that have been planned for a verry long time. I for one do not use politically correct language when speaking to a he, she, it, or them. If there is any doubt about what your gender is, look between your legs. I have no problem with homosexuality, as long as they keep it indoors as I do my own heterosexuality. I do not flaunt, parade, cross dress, and I do not want my grandchildren to be indoctrinated by what is now supposedly normal. It is bullshit that is leading us to the eugenics monsters wet dream of sterility, asexuality, no sexuality, no procreation of the species. I do not think real men abuse, mistreat, or in any way treat a woman as inferior. They are to be cherished, protected, and loved. It is time for men to regrow testicles, and for women who think they are men to remember that they do not have any. Like it don't like it I do not care. Jack.
Phew! You opened the Theosophy can of worms. That's an entire series of books. Bailey's ideas are not repugnant in the broad strokes, but the devil is in the details - literally in this case.
As for cowboys, I've know many real ones, and I include the modern long-haul trucker, who is the spiritual heir to the true cowboys/caballeros. I am playing more with stereotypes than actual characters, partly for brevity and partly to elicit imagery to communicate ideas. There hasn't been a real man in the White House since JFK, I would estimate, and that's by design. It's part of the effort to eliminate masculinity and praise the shirking of male role models.
Keep in mind that sex and gender are very different. Sex is a function of biology, and encompasses physical attributes of male and female, and the roles each is most suited to. Gender is the linguistic qualities of nouns. Gender assigns masculine or feminine attributes to nouns based on social norms, such as ships being called "she". Interestingly, English is probably least-genered European language, being confined to pronouns and some words having to do with specific roles -- steward/stewardess, aviator/aviatrix, etc. This is why the Bumbledicks are so fixated on pronouns, since that's literally the only area of grammar (third-person singular) where gender is found in English. There are some connotative words, such as blouse and shirt, that have implied gender, but it is not built into the words themselves. This gme cannot be played in any other Euro language, since gender is essential to nouns, adjectives, articles, and even pluals in some cases. One would have to completely redesign the languages to get rid of gender with German or Spanish.
Well first let us discuss the Baileys, and the details. Is there something wrong with their research into virology, germ theory, or the fact that lime disease is another lie? The modern trucker is in no way similar to the cowboys of the old west, and as a matter of fact it was Mexican cowboys that gave the American cowboys nearly all the names of the things accredited to the old west. It was the Spanish south before most of Mexico was stollen from them by the USA when a group of squatters tried to establish a new slave state in someone else's country. Now everyone is angry about the former inhabitants reinvading the country that was theirs before we took it. Ironic is it not? Now for the labels of gender. The biological fact of gender is just that, a fact, and I care not about what ships are named or in what other languages identify the gender. We are in America, or what used to be. It has been a planned destruction of the fabric of society in order to bring about the verry thing we are now living in. The great reset is not going to be great for the bulk of humanity. This is part of a greater plan for sterilization of the species, the end of traditional marriage, and by the destruction of gender roles. Men have been crossdressing for who knows how long. The pre-colonial governor of New York has a portrait painted of himself in a blue dress. He was still a man. If a woman dresses in men's clothing, she is still female. If a man has himself castrated and reassigned as a woman, is he a woman? If a woman has surgery and is assigned as a man, is she still a woman. Mutualization has been used for centuries in harems, but is it right? is it normal? No on both counts. It is an abomination! The USA under Obama made us an Obama nation as well. The oath we are on is leading us to ruin, and this is the plan. Destroy all that has made us a Democracy and turned us into a fascist sate. Ps. Please explain what it is that is defective in the Baileys research and findings, be specific.
First, my family predates the United States in Texas, and we hold the crossed arrows from the Comanche and Kickapoo, so I have some thoughts on the US stealing parts of Mexico, but that's an entire book. Short story - the US stole Texas from us, and we kicked the Spanish out, not the Mexicanos.
Obviously, as I mentioned, sex is biological and gender is linguistic. Other languages do matter, especially since I don't live in the US, I am fluent in 4 languages, and I have an international audience. English itself is a mix of Germanic and Romance languages, with the non gender-based linguistics coming from Old Norse. Germanic languages have 3 genders, while Romance languages have 2. English is almost entirely non-gender, except for 3rd Person Singular pronouns. If it weren't for that fact, the Bumbledicks couldn't manipulate it in the way they are trying to.
There is no way for a human to change sex. That is built into every one of the trillions of cells in the human body. Carving off bits here and there is optics, not fundamental change. Cross-dressing and gender-bending are very, very old, and have been practiced for a number of reasons, but primarily entertainment. My biggest gripe is that my speech in my own, and no one can force me to speak their words. Period.
Jack Williams: You know nothing about John Wayne. Read his biography. Wayne worked his ass off in the movies in his youth. He slept in cars on the set 6 days a week in the cold. Wayne was born in 1907. He was 34.5 years old when America went into the war. Why would Wayne throw away his hard-earned career that was finally paying him some money to join the war effort?
Reagan did what the War Department asked him to do.
Teddy came to his end in the Amazon. Teddy always over-estimated himself.
Males can be forcibly castrated. The Arabs castrated their slaves by the thousands.
Men who talk about sex are usually terrible at it.
Well Timmy or whatever your name is, I actually do know much more about Marrion Wayne than you do! What the hell does sleeping in your car have to do with anything at all. I have slept in my car as well as under park benches. I was born in a coal camp in West Virginia. I served in Vietnam as an infantry soldier. John Wayne was selfish, self-centered phony. His children would not have anything to do with him, he was an abusive husband, and a coward in WW2 I don't give a shit what you believe about him. I know, and that is why he was booed off the stage. All the hero worship will not change the facts. The phony history about him is just an immerge presented to the public as if he were the characters he played in the movies. He was not a green Baret, he was not a cowboy, gun slinger tuff guy. Like your opinion, it is false. I have to ask why you present yourself with a mask on! Are you a Wrestler? They pretend for the public as well. Perhaps you and John the cowboy are from the same school of make believe.
Jack Williams: Would you join the Army at 34.5 years of age and ruin your career? And you won't get any respect from me for fighting in Vietnam. Sleeping in a car, not his car, on the movie sets because Wayne was up at dawn working on cheap westerns until sundown for years to build up his career.
I don't worship Wayne as a hero. I just think he made a logical decision not to join the Army at his age and at that point in his career.
And what is your mask sentence about? Wayne wearing a toupee?
I don't care where you were born. It doesn't matter where you were born. Wayne was born in a small house in Winterset, Iowa. Who cares?
Actors are phonies. They act as characters in movies and plays. They don't pretend that they are the real Green Beret or any other character in real life.
Wayne's politics were no doubt closer to yours than mine. To repeat myself, Wayne made a logical choice at his age not to join the Army in WWII. He made plenty of propaganda movies for the war for the Pentagon. Do you want your pound of flesh?
Amen, sister! But does that mean when I made grilled medallions of chicken with fresh asparagus and creamy lemon dill sauce, you wouldn't eat it? :) There is a reason our species has made it this far, and it depends heavily on the sexes performing their natural and best-suited roles. Thank you for the comment!
It seems to me that this phenomenon is a result of both physical and psycholocal attacks. Processes foods and chemicals in the water combine with the onslaught of GeezerMedia messaging that rewards males for feminine behavior, and vice versa. It's a complex and layered agenda, though once one sees it, it is hard to back into it. It comes from all directions and it takes a concerted effort of will to break out of the mental and physical traps, in the same way that it's hard to get out of a comfortable bed in the morning to face the rat race once again.
Vonu: I never saw a woman delivering the newspapers at dawn, or working in the sanitary sewers, or on the garbage trucks, or on the construction crew, or working on airplanes. I did all those jobs. Men get the shit, are in the shit, and that's just the shitty way things are.
As Terry Thomas said in It's a Mad4 World, "American men drop like flies while their wives are under hairdryers reading magazines and eating bon-bons."
Stanley Kramer's greatest films! I have worked with some female grips on film sets that would scare the hell out of many men I know. One in particular, Bunny, stands out in my mind.
Vonu: You must be younger than me. As for driving a trash compacter truck, that's fine but we garbagemen carried huge orange barrels that we'd fill up with trash, sometimes over 60 pounds, and run to the truck with the orange barrel on our shoulder. My RH shoulder is an inch lower than my left from this.
I've always followed Texas Rules in cooking -- men tend the fire and the meat, wormen tend the kitchen and the veggies. Nothing more satisdying than a group of guys, a cooler full of beer, and a Super-Delux Grill-O-Matic!
You have a standing invite for dinner if you're ever in our neck of the woods! I make a mean stroganoff, too. Indeed, creativity is an essential survival tool, but Western men are often socialized to think that being creative lessens one's masculinity. The yin and the yang are each defined by the presence and qualities of the other.
Oddly (according to cultural norms), I am the "Keeper of the Grill". I learned all about meat (cuts, cooking times/methods) from my father and I always take care of the meat portion of a meal. My sister often says that she never learned how to b-b-q as that is men's work and my husband can make sandwiches. So.....
I would happily tend to the cooler in that case. :) My mother grilled a mean steak, but I almost never saw my father with a spatula in his hand. In fact, the few times my mother took a holiday to a spa, Dad went heavy on the liver and onions, which I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot fork. I think that was the only thing, besides a bowl of cereal, I ever saw him cook. Besides my mother, I credit a former girlfriend, who was trained at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) and worked as a professional chef, with honing my culinary skills.
I further refined my skills in the monastery, where I made the mistake of making no-meat hamburgers for the 4th of July, and suddenly my name showed up on KP duty more often than others.
The common usage of the word "male" when referring to a man is itself symptomatic of the problem. A male can be of any species. A human male is called a "man". You are better than most in limiting your use of the word male throughout your excellent essay. The next step to erasing gender traits completely is the deletion of all gender specific pronouns, which a high priority of our overlords.
Thank you for the compliment! Yes, there is a concerted attack on linguistic gender in an attempt to control thought, as Orwell predicted. It's interesting that many Southeast Asian languages have a 3rd Person Singular specific neutral pronoun that can be used to refer to a person. English "it" is generally not used for humans, and "one" is a general pronoun not used for individuals. We tend to use "they" for this purpose, but it is an imperfect solution. I'm not opposed in priniciple to a new neutral specific pronoun, but the Heinz 57 genders is ridiculous and untenable.
We should distinguish between America and the United States. America will always exist, but the United States is already a corpse. The former is the organic culture, and the latter is a corrupt political system.
Testosterone is a strong hormone. It can make you crazy though. Do eunuchs have testosterone? I knew a guy who took testosterone pills. His forehead started to grow large like a Neanderthal's.
I also knew a guy (64 years old) who bought and took the Human Growth Hormone injections. Those are expensive. He was absolutely animated, muscular, and crazy as a horny 14 year old. I'd walk by his house and hear him banging his young girlfriend in the shower.
Getting old and losing the hormones isn't all bad. Think of the money you save by not dating women. You can buy a new bass boat. No in-laws (just maybe nightmares). You can drink all the beer you want and eat pizza every night. You no longer call that phone sex 888 phone number. That's big money saved not to mention no more strip joints.
No hair transplants needed. No haircuts needed for that matter.
Years ago I was walking with my catering friends down the street in Santa Rosa, CA. We walked by the Mission which fed the homeless on our way to a restaurant. As we passed an old wino he said, "Fucking women are the work of Satan!"
And the woman walking next to me said, "He knows the score." LOL!
Ah yes, the Age of Clarity, when testosterone releases its death grip on the male mind. The artificial hormone therapies are horrific, but men need to maintain a certain level of testosterone, or they just give up and waste away. I take D3/K2 supplements and get plenty of direct sunlight to keep a healthy level of testosterone flowing. I have no desire to be a randy buck again, but men need a certain amount of testosterone to keep the machinery lubricated.
RFS: We take D3/K2 supplements as well and California has plenty of sunshine. My favorite occupation is sitting on the front porch steps in the sunshine, drinking a couple Amstels on ice, and watching the world go by.
Now that there is what I call a lifestyle. I didn't think anyone sat on the front porch anymore. I do that quite a bit up at the mountain house, but down here in the city, the front porch is more like a walled defensive installation, and doesn't afford much of a view. I do get my few hours of sunlight before noon, though, and I take full advantage of it.
RFS: Our front porch faces west so it gets too hot in the summer but in the fall and spring the front porch is perfect. In the summer I sit on the back patio which has some shade. We live in an old 1930s bungalow with stucco walls. We've replaced the plumbing, wiring, roof and gutters, put in HVAC, and some new appliances but it's still an old house. The Jubelos built it. They were Italians and good at back patio design. Jubelo was the town garbageman and I think he used garbage from his route to build the house. LOL.
Oh, BTW, my wordpress site is timmytaes.com if you get bored and want to read some short stories or essays with photos. It's free. Just a hobby for me. I don't write as much anymore but still enjoy it.
Will certainly check out your site. I love short stories, because unfortunately, that's about all the time I can ever muster for entertainment reading. Cheers!
Years ago I saw a short comedy video. It showed a young man and his girlfriend on a couch together. The woman was complaining about the nail in her head. (She had a nail sticking out of her forehead.)
"Why don't you take the nail out of your head?" Said the man.
"I have a nail in my head!" Said the woman.
"Well, take it out."
"But I have a nail in my head!"
And this goes on for 3 minutes.
I think whining is the biggest difference between the species. Men do not tolerate whiners amongst themselves. With women, it's a career.
Ha! That sounds familiar. One of my biggest gripes about women is the "Bad Boy List". Whenever she gets angry, the litany of past misdemeanors comes out, and everything you thought was settled years ago is rehashed in real time.
"Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man?" Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady". Link above.
Great article but what can a man do today in California? I was in a store after the 2016 election here in Healdsburg, CA. Trump had won. The women in the store were furious. They loved Hillary.
"Oh, you probably don't like hearing this." The Anglo woman said to me. "You are probably a Trump supporter."
I left the store.
Because I'm an old Anglo male in his 70s, people assume I'm some right-wing baby-boomer. I am ignored.
Why should I fight for a society that casts me aside?
No one hears you louder than I do. I am a political atheist. I sit neither on the left nor the right. I believe is absolute minimal governments and maximum individual freedom. I suppose I am a Mannerist, to coin a term on the spot. I believe in good education for all, and a polite and civil public life -- though what you do on your property is your own business, just keep it out of the public square. My own daughter hasn't spoke 10 words to me since 2016, partly because she thinks I'm a Trumper (I don't vote for anyone), and partly because I pointed out that Hillary would have destroyed the country by now. Biden is at least restrained by his greed. The best thing I have though to do is live a life of integrity, regardless of the cost, and eventually others will come around when their system fails. So far, it's worked, but I have to be patient -- a hard lesson for me.
RFS: My daughter hasn't talked to me since 2016 either. My friend Patrick's daughter left his house when she was 18 and he hasn't heard from her since. Many of my male friends have daughters who don't talk to them anymore.
Good manners are the grease of society. In my fictional Mongo Bongo Band, I had the band go on a "Good Manners Tour" in Canada. That was a fun set of skits.
I have a Canadian buddy here who seems to have produced a very well-rounded daughter, which I take as a control group. She wasn't exposed to the Western insanity 'round the clock, so she wasn't brainwashed from birth and turned out very well because of it. I think all the estranged daughters will eventually come around, once maturity catches up with them.
Who can forget, with the lovely Jane Wyatt playing Spock's mother Amanda Grayson? However, let's not forget the episode "Sarek," in which Spock's father must transfer his emotions onto Picard in order to function as a negotiator. We learn that Vulcan emotions are extremely intense, even pushing the human mind into madness. In many ways, I see the Vulcans as personification of masculine identity.
From my highly biased point of view, Picard was never the captain of Gene Roddenberry's USS Enterprise. I doubt if gender ever entered into Roddenberry's concept of Vulcanism.
what a magnificently written article. Well done buddy
Thank you most kindly for the praise. Nothing makes me happier than a satisfied reader. Please pass it along to all the men you know. Cheers!
Bit of a big call that one. I am 69 and was raised surrounded by liberated girls/women in 1970, who read and lived Germain Greers; “The Female Eunuch”. Those young women abused me constantly for not wanting to have sex with them because “They were not beautiful” enough.
I got to school every day, stinking from the sex I was having with the doctors daughter. I didn’t wash that sex smell off….. if you understand my 12 year old emotional drive back then. I too was in the arts/ on stage/ writing the school magazine with the other arts people, whist being the captain of Footy teams..
But the AUSTRALIAN feminism hated me because I was Male! if you where creative at all, you were a “Fucking Poofta!”. I was constantly harassed by Gay men/boys, who left tearful because I wouldn’t have sex with them.
I’ve had 3 wives and children, and am today a Sole Parent raising a daughter for 13 years, with no women in my life at all..
Last week, my 15 y/old daughters cooking class set up a commercial restaurant project with a menu. My waitress/Waiter was a boy with a moustache who’s name tag said “Emma”. I thought to myself “You have a moustache and you’re Emma?“
The whole of the Australian Psyche has become piss weak; and even commenting on this “politically correct” miss gendering psycho babble is an arrestable offence in AUS now.
My daughters boy friend is the rugby hero, and they don’t have sex! Some thing has changed.
I have been sued by the govt for 3 houses, all built by myself, by hand, and the divorce courts have left me penniless, where all those women now own my houses. It’s OK. I’ve earned another huge house for myself over the last 15 years… but no Gendered parasites admitted to this house.
I get what you are suggesting here, but I think you have a blind spot regarding the failure of feminism and what has happened to all those girls who wanna be boys.
Women abuse me for being Male.
I empathize more than you might imagine. I, too, have horror stories and if I scratch too deep in that area, the anger comes flooding out, so I dance gingerly around it. In Texas, men generally sigh and say, "The next time I meet a woman I want to marry, I'll just buy her a house and walk away." The Western "family" courts have done more damage to the family, than just about any other institution.
Ultimately, the blame falls on Edward Bernays and the Madison Ave. gang for launching an all-out psychological war against males. It began during WW2, with things like the Rosia the Riveter campaign that drove women out of the house and into the workforce, and instilled dissatisfaction with the traditional roles that women had building and maintaining society. There are so many facets to the war on women that it would take a book to really dive into them. To stay within my self-imposed 1,000-word limit here, I had to focus on men, where I have some expertise. I would happily post a guest article by any women who could offer insight into their own struggles and views.
Thanks for your comment, and I am overjoyed and gratified that you have obviously raised a fine young woman, who will be at the forefront of the coming re-alignment.
David V. Australia is even stranger than I thought it was.
As a woman who is "deeply analytical, intensely loyal, and emotionally disciplined", I don't understand women either. And yes, after observing the behavior of women once they get a little power, I agree that it is time for men to stand up and take charge for all our sakes.
Great to have your perspective here! Dare I say you agree with my assessment, which makes me think I am on the right track with both sexes. When you say "take charge," I would add that men should and must be in charge of civilization, while women have an equally vital role in taking charge of society, re: my definition of them. Manners and civil behavior are, in my opinion, the realm of women, while the framework for surviving and thriving is the male realm. I certainly don't mean to say that women can't be analytical, loyal and disciplined, but rather my point is to lambast the males who have tossed these qualities in favor of an artificial set of qualities drilled into us by marketers and The Message. This topic is massive and the war on sex roles is deeply buried in our social fabric. It will take a lot of effort on all our parts to isolate and extract it from our culture, and good folks like you are a key factor in success.
If you are familiar with Alice Baileys ten-point strategy for a new world order you will see the beginnings of it! I will say that there were never any images of the tuff western cowboys presented as reality. Two eastern European Jews actually romanticized the movie cowboys. The truth is that they were white, black, brown, toothless, poor, and dressed verry different than the slick phony western movie cowboys. John Wayne was a draft dodger in WW 2 and received a deferment in exchange for doing government propaganda work, Regan was the same! We booed him off the stage in Hawaii when he came out in fatigues, because some of us knew the truth, so I would not present the men of yesteryear as the movie cowboys. Teddy Rosevelt had a slick western outfit made in New York for his little western adventure that was as phony as he was! What really happened to the males you and I actually remember were castrated by liberal agendas that have been planned for a verry long time. I for one do not use politically correct language when speaking to a he, she, it, or them. If there is any doubt about what your gender is, look between your legs. I have no problem with homosexuality, as long as they keep it indoors as I do my own heterosexuality. I do not flaunt, parade, cross dress, and I do not want my grandchildren to be indoctrinated by what is now supposedly normal. It is bullshit that is leading us to the eugenics monsters wet dream of sterility, asexuality, no sexuality, no procreation of the species. I do not think real men abuse, mistreat, or in any way treat a woman as inferior. They are to be cherished, protected, and loved. It is time for men to regrow testicles, and for women who think they are men to remember that they do not have any. Like it don't like it I do not care. Jack.
Phew! You opened the Theosophy can of worms. That's an entire series of books. Bailey's ideas are not repugnant in the broad strokes, but the devil is in the details - literally in this case.
As for cowboys, I've know many real ones, and I include the modern long-haul trucker, who is the spiritual heir to the true cowboys/caballeros. I am playing more with stereotypes than actual characters, partly for brevity and partly to elicit imagery to communicate ideas. There hasn't been a real man in the White House since JFK, I would estimate, and that's by design. It's part of the effort to eliminate masculinity and praise the shirking of male role models.
Keep in mind that sex and gender are very different. Sex is a function of biology, and encompasses physical attributes of male and female, and the roles each is most suited to. Gender is the linguistic qualities of nouns. Gender assigns masculine or feminine attributes to nouns based on social norms, such as ships being called "she". Interestingly, English is probably least-genered European language, being confined to pronouns and some words having to do with specific roles -- steward/stewardess, aviator/aviatrix, etc. This is why the Bumbledicks are so fixated on pronouns, since that's literally the only area of grammar (third-person singular) where gender is found in English. There are some connotative words, such as blouse and shirt, that have implied gender, but it is not built into the words themselves. This gme cannot be played in any other Euro language, since gender is essential to nouns, adjectives, articles, and even pluals in some cases. One would have to completely redesign the languages to get rid of gender with German or Spanish.
Good points!
Well first let us discuss the Baileys, and the details. Is there something wrong with their research into virology, germ theory, or the fact that lime disease is another lie? The modern trucker is in no way similar to the cowboys of the old west, and as a matter of fact it was Mexican cowboys that gave the American cowboys nearly all the names of the things accredited to the old west. It was the Spanish south before most of Mexico was stollen from them by the USA when a group of squatters tried to establish a new slave state in someone else's country. Now everyone is angry about the former inhabitants reinvading the country that was theirs before we took it. Ironic is it not? Now for the labels of gender. The biological fact of gender is just that, a fact, and I care not about what ships are named or in what other languages identify the gender. We are in America, or what used to be. It has been a planned destruction of the fabric of society in order to bring about the verry thing we are now living in. The great reset is not going to be great for the bulk of humanity. This is part of a greater plan for sterilization of the species, the end of traditional marriage, and by the destruction of gender roles. Men have been crossdressing for who knows how long. The pre-colonial governor of New York has a portrait painted of himself in a blue dress. He was still a man. If a woman dresses in men's clothing, she is still female. If a man has himself castrated and reassigned as a woman, is he a woman? If a woman has surgery and is assigned as a man, is she still a woman. Mutualization has been used for centuries in harems, but is it right? is it normal? No on both counts. It is an abomination! The USA under Obama made us an Obama nation as well. The oath we are on is leading us to ruin, and this is the plan. Destroy all that has made us a Democracy and turned us into a fascist sate. Ps. Please explain what it is that is defective in the Baileys research and findings, be specific.
Thanks Jack! A loaded comment, for sure.
First, my family predates the United States in Texas, and we hold the crossed arrows from the Comanche and Kickapoo, so I have some thoughts on the US stealing parts of Mexico, but that's an entire book. Short story - the US stole Texas from us, and we kicked the Spanish out, not the Mexicanos.
Obviously, as I mentioned, sex is biological and gender is linguistic. Other languages do matter, especially since I don't live in the US, I am fluent in 4 languages, and I have an international audience. English itself is a mix of Germanic and Romance languages, with the non gender-based linguistics coming from Old Norse. Germanic languages have 3 genders, while Romance languages have 2. English is almost entirely non-gender, except for 3rd Person Singular pronouns. If it weren't for that fact, the Bumbledicks couldn't manipulate it in the way they are trying to.
There is no way for a human to change sex. That is built into every one of the trillions of cells in the human body. Carving off bits here and there is optics, not fundamental change. Cross-dressing and gender-bending are very, very old, and have been practiced for a number of reasons, but primarily entertainment. My biggest gripe is that my speech in my own, and no one can force me to speak their words. Period.
Jack Williams: You know nothing about John Wayne. Read his biography. Wayne worked his ass off in the movies in his youth. He slept in cars on the set 6 days a week in the cold. Wayne was born in 1907. He was 34.5 years old when America went into the war. Why would Wayne throw away his hard-earned career that was finally paying him some money to join the war effort?
Reagan did what the War Department asked him to do.
Teddy came to his end in the Amazon. Teddy always over-estimated himself.
Males can be forcibly castrated. The Arabs castrated their slaves by the thousands.
Men who talk about sex are usually terrible at it.
Well Timmy or whatever your name is, I actually do know much more about Marrion Wayne than you do! What the hell does sleeping in your car have to do with anything at all. I have slept in my car as well as under park benches. I was born in a coal camp in West Virginia. I served in Vietnam as an infantry soldier. John Wayne was selfish, self-centered phony. His children would not have anything to do with him, he was an abusive husband, and a coward in WW2 I don't give a shit what you believe about him. I know, and that is why he was booed off the stage. All the hero worship will not change the facts. The phony history about him is just an immerge presented to the public as if he were the characters he played in the movies. He was not a green Baret, he was not a cowboy, gun slinger tuff guy. Like your opinion, it is false. I have to ask why you present yourself with a mask on! Are you a Wrestler? They pretend for the public as well. Perhaps you and John the cowboy are from the same school of make believe.
Jack Williams: Would you join the Army at 34.5 years of age and ruin your career? And you won't get any respect from me for fighting in Vietnam. Sleeping in a car, not his car, on the movie sets because Wayne was up at dawn working on cheap westerns until sundown for years to build up his career.
I don't worship Wayne as a hero. I just think he made a logical decision not to join the Army at his age and at that point in his career.
And what is your mask sentence about? Wayne wearing a toupee?
I don't care where you were born. It doesn't matter where you were born. Wayne was born in a small house in Winterset, Iowa. Who cares?
Actors are phonies. They act as characters in movies and plays. They don't pretend that they are the real Green Beret or any other character in real life.
Wayne's politics were no doubt closer to yours than mine. To repeat myself, Wayne made a logical choice at his age not to join the Army in WWII. He made plenty of propaganda movies for the war for the Pentagon. Do you want your pound of flesh?
I need a man to be a father, a brother, a husband or a son, not a mother, a sister, a wife or a daughter and so I say again, "Vive la différence".
Amen, sister! But does that mean when I made grilled medallions of chicken with fresh asparagus and creamy lemon dill sauce, you wouldn't eat it? :) There is a reason our species has made it this far, and it depends heavily on the sexes performing their natural and best-suited roles. Thank you for the comment!
According to the statistics, "the sexes (are) performing their natural and best-suited roles" less frequently.
It seems to me that this phenomenon is a result of both physical and psycholocal attacks. Processes foods and chemicals in the water combine with the onslaught of GeezerMedia messaging that rewards males for feminine behavior, and vice versa. It's a complex and layered agenda, though once one sees it, it is hard to back into it. It comes from all directions and it takes a concerted effort of will to break out of the mental and physical traps, in the same way that it's hard to get out of a comfortable bed in the morning to face the rat race once again.
Vonu: I never saw a woman delivering the newspapers at dawn, or working in the sanitary sewers, or on the garbage trucks, or on the construction crew, or working on airplanes. I did all those jobs. Men get the shit, are in the shit, and that's just the shitty way things are.
As Terry Thomas said in It's a Mad4 World, "American men drop like flies while their wives are under hairdryers reading magazines and eating bon-bons."
Stanley Kramer's greatest films! I have worked with some female grips on film sets that would scare the hell out of many men I know. One in particular, Bunny, stands out in my mind.
When I was a paperboy for The Denver Post in the late 1960s, they had one papergirl.
When I was driving a trash compacter truck in Jackson, WY in the 2000's, we had one female driver.
Most American women never spend any time "under hairdryers reading magazines and eating bon-bons."
Vonu: You must be younger than me. As for driving a trash compacter truck, that's fine but we garbagemen carried huge orange barrels that we'd fill up with trash, sometimes over 60 pounds, and run to the truck with the orange barrel on our shoulder. My RH shoulder is an inch lower than my left from this.
Have you ever dragged a dumpster with bad wheels to the back of a compactor?
An empty dumpster outweighs a full barrel.
RFS: As long as a grill is involved, male cooking is okay.
I've always followed Texas Rules in cooking -- men tend the fire and the meat, wormen tend the kitchen and the veggies. Nothing more satisdying than a group of guys, a cooler full of beer, and a Super-Delux Grill-O-Matic!
I would be delighted to eat your dinner and would give thanks for your talent. Creativity is the purvue of both sexes.
You have a standing invite for dinner if you're ever in our neck of the woods! I make a mean stroganoff, too. Indeed, creativity is an essential survival tool, but Western men are often socialized to think that being creative lessens one's masculinity. The yin and the yang are each defined by the presence and qualities of the other.
Oddly (according to cultural norms), I am the "Keeper of the Grill". I learned all about meat (cuts, cooking times/methods) from my father and I always take care of the meat portion of a meal. My sister often says that she never learned how to b-b-q as that is men's work and my husband can make sandwiches. So.....
I would happily tend to the cooler in that case. :) My mother grilled a mean steak, but I almost never saw my father with a spatula in his hand. In fact, the few times my mother took a holiday to a spa, Dad went heavy on the liver and onions, which I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot fork. I think that was the only thing, besides a bowl of cereal, I ever saw him cook. Besides my mother, I credit a former girlfriend, who was trained at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) and worked as a professional chef, with honing my culinary skills.
I further refined my skills in the monastery, where I made the mistake of making no-meat hamburgers for the 4th of July, and suddenly my name showed up on KP duty more often than others.
RFS: You can only cook stroganoff or borscht if you speak Russian and wear a fur hat.
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The common usage of the word "male" when referring to a man is itself symptomatic of the problem. A male can be of any species. A human male is called a "man". You are better than most in limiting your use of the word male throughout your excellent essay. The next step to erasing gender traits completely is the deletion of all gender specific pronouns, which a high priority of our overlords.
Thank you for the compliment! Yes, there is a concerted attack on linguistic gender in an attempt to control thought, as Orwell predicted. It's interesting that many Southeast Asian languages have a 3rd Person Singular specific neutral pronoun that can be used to refer to a person. English "it" is generally not used for humans, and "one" is a general pronoun not used for individuals. We tend to use "they" for this purpose, but it is an imperfect solution. I'm not opposed in priniciple to a new neutral specific pronoun, but the Heinz 57 genders is ridiculous and untenable.
You're ridiculous if you think anything can be done at this stage without ropes, guillotine, and backhoes to dig the holes.
We should distinguish between America and the United States. America will always exist, but the United States is already a corpse. The former is the organic culture, and the latter is a corrupt political system.
Testosterone is a strong hormone. It can make you crazy though. Do eunuchs have testosterone? I knew a guy who took testosterone pills. His forehead started to grow large like a Neanderthal's.
I also knew a guy (64 years old) who bought and took the Human Growth Hormone injections. Those are expensive. He was absolutely animated, muscular, and crazy as a horny 14 year old. I'd walk by his house and hear him banging his young girlfriend in the shower.
Getting old and losing the hormones isn't all bad. Think of the money you save by not dating women. You can buy a new bass boat. No in-laws (just maybe nightmares). You can drink all the beer you want and eat pizza every night. You no longer call that phone sex 888 phone number. That's big money saved not to mention no more strip joints.
No hair transplants needed. No haircuts needed for that matter.
Years ago I was walking with my catering friends down the street in Santa Rosa, CA. We walked by the Mission which fed the homeless on our way to a restaurant. As we passed an old wino he said, "Fucking women are the work of Satan!"
And the woman walking next to me said, "He knows the score." LOL!
Ah yes, the Age of Clarity, when testosterone releases its death grip on the male mind. The artificial hormone therapies are horrific, but men need to maintain a certain level of testosterone, or they just give up and waste away. I take D3/K2 supplements and get plenty of direct sunlight to keep a healthy level of testosterone flowing. I have no desire to be a randy buck again, but men need a certain amount of testosterone to keep the machinery lubricated.
RFS: We take D3/K2 supplements as well and California has plenty of sunshine. My favorite occupation is sitting on the front porch steps in the sunshine, drinking a couple Amstels on ice, and watching the world go by.
Now that there is what I call a lifestyle. I didn't think anyone sat on the front porch anymore. I do that quite a bit up at the mountain house, but down here in the city, the front porch is more like a walled defensive installation, and doesn't afford much of a view. I do get my few hours of sunlight before noon, though, and I take full advantage of it.
RFS: Our front porch faces west so it gets too hot in the summer but in the fall and spring the front porch is perfect. In the summer I sit on the back patio which has some shade. We live in an old 1930s bungalow with stucco walls. We've replaced the plumbing, wiring, roof and gutters, put in HVAC, and some new appliances but it's still an old house. The Jubelos built it. They were Italians and good at back patio design. Jubelo was the town garbageman and I think he used garbage from his route to build the house. LOL.
Oh, BTW, my wordpress site is timmytaes.com if you get bored and want to read some short stories or essays with photos. It's free. Just a hobby for me. I don't write as much anymore but still enjoy it.
Will certainly check out your site. I love short stories, because unfortunately, that's about all the time I can ever muster for entertainment reading. Cheers!
Years ago I saw a short comedy video. It showed a young man and his girlfriend on a couch together. The woman was complaining about the nail in her head. (She had a nail sticking out of her forehead.)
"Why don't you take the nail out of your head?" Said the man.
"I have a nail in my head!" Said the woman.
"Well, take it out."
"But I have a nail in my head!"
And this goes on for 3 minutes.
I think whining is the biggest difference between the species. Men do not tolerate whiners amongst themselves. With women, it's a career.
Ha! That sounds familiar. One of my biggest gripes about women is the "Bad Boy List". Whenever she gets angry, the litany of past misdemeanors comes out, and everything you thought was settled years ago is rehashed in real time.
RFS: At my age when this happens, I tell my wife, "I don't remember that. Are you sure?" And a failing memory comes to my rescue.
Ha! I've been using that since my late 20s! Fortunately, Mrs. FarSide is Asian and doesn't suffer from that particular ailment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-jAY
"Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man?" Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady". Link above.
Great article but what can a man do today in California? I was in a store after the 2016 election here in Healdsburg, CA. Trump had won. The women in the store were furious. They loved Hillary.
"Oh, you probably don't like hearing this." The Anglo woman said to me. "You are probably a Trump supporter."
I left the store.
Because I'm an old Anglo male in his 70s, people assume I'm some right-wing baby-boomer. I am ignored.
Why should I fight for a society that casts me aside?
No one hears you louder than I do. I am a political atheist. I sit neither on the left nor the right. I believe is absolute minimal governments and maximum individual freedom. I suppose I am a Mannerist, to coin a term on the spot. I believe in good education for all, and a polite and civil public life -- though what you do on your property is your own business, just keep it out of the public square. My own daughter hasn't spoke 10 words to me since 2016, partly because she thinks I'm a Trumper (I don't vote for anyone), and partly because I pointed out that Hillary would have destroyed the country by now. Biden is at least restrained by his greed. The best thing I have though to do is live a life of integrity, regardless of the cost, and eventually others will come around when their system fails. So far, it's worked, but I have to be patient -- a hard lesson for me.
RFS: My daughter hasn't talked to me since 2016 either. My friend Patrick's daughter left his house when she was 18 and he hasn't heard from her since. Many of my male friends have daughters who don't talk to them anymore.
Good manners are the grease of society. In my fictional Mongo Bongo Band, I had the band go on a "Good Manners Tour" in Canada. That was a fun set of skits.
I also agree with your political positions.
I have a Canadian buddy here who seems to have produced a very well-rounded daughter, which I take as a control group. She wasn't exposed to the Western insanity 'round the clock, so she wasn't brainwashed from birth and turned out very well because of it. I think all the estranged daughters will eventually come around, once maturity catches up with them.
Don't forget that Spock was half-human because his mother was full.
Who can forget, with the lovely Jane Wyatt playing Spock's mother Amanda Grayson? However, let's not forget the episode "Sarek," in which Spock's father must transfer his emotions onto Picard in order to function as a negotiator. We learn that Vulcan emotions are extremely intense, even pushing the human mind into madness. In many ways, I see the Vulcans as personification of masculine identity.
From my highly biased point of view, Picard was never the captain of Gene Roddenberry's USS Enterprise. I doubt if gender ever entered into Roddenberry's concept of Vulcanism.