Archive for October, 2009
“The ‘Tough Guise’ Scam” is my first contribution to The Spearhead, a new magazine featuring articles by anti-feminists, men’s rights advocates and masculists of various kinds. The ‘Tough Guise’ Scam I’ve been wanting to write something about Jackson Katz’s most popular piece of feminist propaganda since I first saw the YouTube clip years ago. For [...]
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This pertains to an ongoing conversation with my friend Mr. Blake about honor. I was looking for a quote for a more finished piece I’m working on, and I came across this quote–which I had highlighted while reading the Táin. “…it’s a terrible pity I hand’t my strength,” said Cú Chulainn, “for had I been [...]
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Knocked off early this afternoon and went for a late hike in the Columbia River Gorge with an old friend. Andy taught me the job I do now. A little over a year ago, he moved to the Florida Keys, and then to the Virgin Islands, where he eventually got a job teaching windsurfing. He’s [...]
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Locklin made me a fan with his recent essay on “Stuff White People Like” over at TakiMag. He seems to be a secular conservative of some stripe, which is encouraging. He believes, as I do, that “Culture and morality are machines for transmitting basic survival truths across generations.” Here’s a clip of the essay. In [...]
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“They worshipped strength, because it is strength that makes all other values possible. Nothing survives without it. Who knows what delicate wonders have died out of the world, for want of the strength to survive. “ – Han, Enter the Dragon Masculinity is strength. If you take a thing apart or modify it, there are [...]
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The prefix paleo identifies something “ancient,” or “old.” Its association with pre-historic man gives it a knuckle-dragging caveman sensibility. When defining the paleoconservative, Chilton Williamson, Jr wrote of something that was an “expression of rootedness: a sense of place and of history, a sense of self derived from forebears, kin, and culture—an identity that is [...]
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