Virtus is dead. Long live Virtus!

Recently got off the phone with Richard Spencer from Alternative Right, and Virtus will no longer be a column there. The articles written for Virtus, including my own, will be kept there, but re-categorized. There was no big ideological break or bad blood, Richard just wanted to streamline the site a bit and my little “men’s studies” corner was kind of extraneous and out of place. Also, I didn’t really have the time to hammer away at current events in a way that would have made the blog a “must read.”

I still have some pieces in the works for Alternative Right, and I will be making further contributions to the site at my leisure.

I may revive Virtus at a later date as a stand-alone blog, or in some other form. If any men would be interested in participating in this sort of project based on the kinds of things I was writing about for Alternative Right, please drop me a line.

However, at the moment…after a very productive 9 months or so of writing for The Spearhead and Alternative Right, I think I’m going to relax and enjoy the summer a bit.

I may even do a little painting.

The Sunic Journal

Tonight, the taped Dr. Tomislav Sunić interview with me debuts on Voice of Reason.

Tue., May 4: Interview with Jack Donovan

Tom interviews Jack Donovan, an author and commentator who covers issues involving the decline of manhood and honor in the modern West.

DOWNLOAD UPDATE: For those who missed the premiere broadcast, you can download it here.

Invictus, and a few updates.

I’ve been busy taking advantage of some interesting interview and speaking opportunities over the last week or two, but expect a good bit of new material over the next two weeks over at AlternativeRight.com. Two recent posts include:

• Scapegoating American Boys to Excuse and Protect Jihadis
• Male Studies?

I’m working on a review and an essay related to James’ Bowman’s Honor. Androphilia, my first book, looks like it will finally see its second printing — with a new afterword.

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

- William Ernest Henley

Alternative Right

Alternativeright.com goes live today. I am a Contributing Editor, and I’ll be writing mainly for the “Virtus” section on mens’ studies and manhood from an alternative right, paleomasculine perspective. It’s a high quality project and some outstanding writers are involved–I’m very pleased to be a part of it.

To learn more about the project as a whole, listen to Executive Editor Richard Spencer’s introductory podcast.

http://feed.podcastmachine.com/podcasts/3651/episodes/17841

My first post is an interview with Welmer from The Spearhead about the future of fatherhood in the west.

The War on Oblivion
A Discussion about the Future of Fatherhood in the West

February Update

This site will continue to be more of a catalog for my work elsewhere than an actual blog. If you want to know what I’m up to at a given moment–friend me on Facebook. I’ll add you unless you look like a transvestite, a feminist or some other enemy mole. I’ve been working on some major pieces for the “Alternative Right” — a really snazzy looking new online magazine set to launch March 1st.

The Butch Factor

“The Butch Factor,” a documentary I appeared in (taped 2 years ago) is now out on DVD and will probably be played on the Logo channel in the near future. I was basically happy with the way I was cut–my message really came across. It’s also probably the last time I’ll be on film with hair. There’s a review of it here.

The Spearhead

Here are my recent posts of note, for those of you keeping score at home:

• “Mother May I?” Masculinity
• The Manly Woman of Honor (Part II)
• Rise of the Eco-Shrew
• On Women as “Chattel”
• The Grievance Table

MetaFilter

Oh yeah. Some guy posted a loaded entry about me to the popular MetaFilter site. He got the responses he was obviously hoping for–a string of hipster leftist cliches and bitchy ad hominems prompted by his intentionally skewed presentation. When you lead with “former reverend in The Church of Satan” and emphasize a lie about my second book only being an “e-book,” (I did a reading in an actual store that carries hard copies, and my first book, Androphilia is in cataloged libraries around the world) you’re pretty obviously attempting to defame, not inform. Fucking queens.

What Feminists Are Peddling

The best pitch feminists have for straight white men is summed up in this post, in response to the new retrosexual Dockers ad campaign.

… it’s straight, white men (the very ones most likely to wear these khakis) who should be afraid of this kind of masculinity more than anyone.  It forces them to be “heroes” and really super human.  Instead of relating to other humans, they must relate as the “pants” and can never actually be weak or afraid or part of a group- but rather must charge ahead into battle like John Wayne on T.

And if you are a  straight, white men – listen to me on this- you should be afraid of the pants themselves.  If being a real man means wearing something as tacky as Dockers khakis, well, that’s more or less like having Satan drag your soul to hell.

So be afraid.  Everyone.  Of what is out there.  And avoid the Dockers.  Why not try some nice  skinny leg jeans in a bright and happy color instead?  I promise it will make the world a much less hellish place.

That’s right, men. This fashionably disheveled feminist has something better than strength, honor, heroism, dignity, discipline and responsibility to offer you.

Those things are hard, anyway. Just relax, already. Stop trying so hard. Lay back, smoke a doob and let yourself be weak. Don’t you see, that awesome guy you really want to be is just an idea, like an action movie hero, and you can never really be that guy–at least most of you can’t. So why bother? Why exert any emotional control? Why strive for anything? What’s the point. Instead of trying to be the best you possibly can be, instead of trying to be as much like your heroes as you can manage given your will and your talents…why not just give up?

Just…submit. Let women take over. They’re better at running your life than you are, anyway, and they always know what’s best.

After all, skinny jeans look great on most men, don’t they?

Feminists laugh off male resistance to the erosion of the masculine ideal as much ado about nothing, but men really do have a choice to make. The neutered herbivore male is the logical end of Marxist feminism. Passive, non-threatening, weak, easy to control. Any other end is a compromise, a threat. The utopian visions of feminists cannot be sustained unless men submit to the authority of feminists completely, and abandon any gendered vision of their own.

The new Docker’s ad campaign has inspired several articles and blogs, so here are a few more:

Dockers Passes the Pants to a New Generation
Dockers® Brand to Lead Khaki Comeback by Asking Men to Once Again “Wear the Pants™” (Official Release)
Dockers Tries to Revive Khakis, Masculinity
(Men’s Rights) New Dockers ‘wear the pants’ ad campaign for soft khakis brings charges of sexism
Contact Dockers over their Sexist, Anti-Feminine Ad Campaign (“Queer” Blog)
Dockers does it again (Bitch Magazine)
Khaki or tacky: Is this ‘pink/blue, truck/doll, pants/dress’ ad offensive? (Goodasyou, gay site)

9 out of 10 feminist/Marxist thought police agree that Dockers is not “on message” and that this must be corrected.

Manhood, Masculinity and Honor in the News 11/3/10

Female Leaders

A ballsy–and signed–letter to the editor about “Why female leaders don’t cut it.“

Men, Share Your Feelings

A New Jersey therapist wants men to “share their feelings.” Big surprise there. He has, of course, started an Institute for  it. The Creative Man Institute. Here’s the thing. The more I learn about men, the more I learn that men who trust each other actually do share their feelings–though they do it differently from women and trying to ‘fix’ this is like trying to make a lefty write with his right hand. It’s forced and unnecessary. The problem here is that when we re-designed society to revolve around the emotional needs of women, men lost a good bit of the quality time they used to spend with other men. Fathers spend their evenings running errands and helping the kids, and their weekends shopping, running more errands, running the kids around and doing the sort of household chores that women would have done 50 years ago. It’s not that there’s dishonor in the work or that it is “woman’s work.”

50-100 years ago men were involved in social groups and fraternities that met frequently and provided opportunities for male bonding within a circle of trust. A lot of these clubs became obsolete or were considered sexist and were attacked by women. As a society we stigmatize the sorts of exclusive groups and closed circles that men form naturally–because women can’t stand being excluded–and then, realizing that something’s missing, we reinvent awkward versions of same under the only acceptable forms: “therapy” or “self help.” But women form women’s only groups–or groups that no man would have any interest in joining–all the time.

I’d sign up for a “men only” gym or a “men only” martial arts club in a heartbeat. Women have tons of places for women.

That’s an interesting facet of male-female interaction. Women want access to the private world of men, but men want nothing to do with the private worlds of women. Men are criticized for wanting to be away from women. Women are not criticized for wanting to be away from men. This is an indefensible double standard.

Parents encouraged to help boys resist stereotypes

Mara McDonough says she is troubled by media images that seem to glorify violent men and rappers, rather than kind, educated men who treat women with respect.

The single mom from the North Side has a son — Larry, 12 — to raise, and she wants him to be a better kind of boy, and grow into a better kind of man, than the kind of males she sees in many media images. She tries to set a good example with her own life, and have good communication with Larry.

“I play both the mommy and the daddy role,” says McDonough, 33. “I try to lead by example. I wouldn’t try to ask him to do anything I wouldn’t do.

Where’s dad? You know, that’s kind of what dads are for. You can’t be the mommy and the daddy. You can only be the mommy. Women can only understand a caricature of manhood, and vice versa. He won’t relate to her as a man, because she isn’t one. Totally different dynamic. That doesn’t make a bad mom. Creating a society that encouraged men to stick around would be more efficient than creating social programs to compensate badly for the natural role of a father.

I Am Jack’s 10th Anniversary Fight Club Blu-Ray Release

Fight Club (the movie) is 10 years old.

The Privilege of Being a Man

An enjoyable essay written from a paleomasculine perspective by Mitchell Kalpakgian.

“If only the radical feminists and cowardly men grasped some of these truths about the male of the species, the relations between the sexes would return to normal, love and romance would return to an unchivalrous world, marriage and children would flourish, and everyone would recognize once again the normal, the human, and the natural.”

In a better world…

Hate is Not a Crime

http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/hate_is_not_a_crime/

From Jack Hunter from Takimag. I was going to write about the new Hate Crimes legislation about to hit Obama’s desk, which not only gives special legal protections to homosexuals, but also to every confused man who puts on a tutu.

Fortunately, now I don’t have to waste my breath.

Thought policing is tyranny.

Recent Interview on Pacific Northwest “Queer Culture”

I answered a few questions for a local high school student recently…

http://www.jack-donovan.com/androphilia/2009/10/recent-interview-on-pacific-northwest-queer-culture/

It’s Never Enough, Is It?

So, women got their favorite diversity candidate elected–the one they picked instead of a woman. Then presumably in attempt to appease women, Obama appointed Hillary Clinton, his most bitter rival, as a Secretary of State. He then appointed a woman, a wise Latina, to The Supreme Court.

Now, because the guy has a basketball game with the guys, women are bitching about not being included?

Complaints of a man’s world at the Obama White House

I’m no Obama fan, but isn’t this just…nagging?

The devil in me yearns for a photo from a co-ed game where the 6′1″ Obama body checks one of his female aids and she eats shit. That would be great. That would be “equality.” Of course that would never happen, because he’d go out of his way to avoid it and the game would be the sham that PC-engineered “equality” almost always is.

I say he just makes separate but equal quality time for the girls, too.

Perhaps an evening of scrap-booking and a romantic comedy?

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UPDATE:

Apparently the Appeaser-In-Chief included a woman in his Sunday golf game. How embarrassingly stupid. There’s some talk lately about what a “Woman’s Nation” would look like. You’re looking at it.

“Yes, Dear.”

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