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.

Stewed, Screwed and Tattooed

New blurb about a recent Sailor Jerry documentary over at The Spearhead.

If you know anything about tattoos, you know his work. His trademark designs feature themes of “Man’s Demise,” a brand of manly nihilism that recalls the lyrics of the Hank Williams song “I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive.” Likely owing to his war-bound clientele, Sailor Jerry’s man is tough and scrappy, but ultimately just another one of Fate’s marionettes.  You owe it to yourself to check this one out for its manly, earthy humanity.

New Spearhead Piece – “Patriarchy Works”

My latest for The Spearhead…

Patriarchy Works

Whatever your feelings are about the “rights” of women in society, one thing is undeniable: patriarchy works. It’s not an academic theory. It’s historical fact. Some patriarchal societies have worked better than others, for a wide variety of reasons. It has been proven that a patriarchal society can rise to international prominence. Few, if any real matriarchal systems have ever succeeded. Virtually all of the great achievements of mankind—from the aqueduct to the steam engine to the great works of Western and Eastern arts and literature—are the products of men who worked within patriarchal systems.

Read the rest at The Spearhead.

Alphas, Male Hierarchy and The Form

New piece art The Spearhead -

Alphas, Male Hierarchy and The Form

Men push down and look up.

A man establishes his own position by applying pressure on the men around him. The men who succumb to that pressure fall beneath him. They may resent him or covet his status, but in some way they are always looking up to him. Those men, in turn, apply pressure on the men around and ultimately beneath them. It is not a linear order, but a pyramid of dominance. In relative proportion to the size of the group, multiple men can claim comparable levels of dominance. Their highest task is to compete with each other, but they also have to apply a certain amount of downward pressure to stay where they are.

Read more at The Spearhead…

The Spearhead – Here Come the Herbivores

New essay posted to The Spearhead, in part a tribute to Yukio Mishima, who committed hara-kiri 39 years ago this week.

Here Come the Herbivores

On November 25, 1970, author Yukio Mishima and handful of compatriots took the commandant of a military base hostage and commanded the attention of a nation. His men were armed only with samurai swords. With news helicopters buzzing overhead he asked the assembled soldiers at the base to rise up and proudly reclaim their manly national heritage.

Read the rest and comment at The Spearhead…

The Spearhead – Gameness

New review posted to The Spearhead.

Gameness – On Sam Sheridan’s “A Fighter’s Heart.”

The first hundred pages of Sam Sheridan’s A Fighter’s Heart made me want to pack it in and take up needlepoint. After graduating from high school, Sheridan joined the Merchant Marines, went to Harvard to study art, sailed around the world as a crew member on a yacht, studied Muay Thai in Thailand, won a fight in Thailand, got his EMT certification, fought fires in Washington and Arizona, worked in Antarctica, studied MMA with Pat Miletich and received a good clobbering in an amateur MMA match. In short, he’s done everything awesome.

Continue reading at The Spearhead

The Spearhead – Oprah’s Nation

My latest over at The Spearhead, in response to the noxious Shriver Report.

Oprah’s Nation

On Oprah’s Feel-Good Epilogue to The Shriver Report

It was an obvious choice to wrap up The Shriver Report with a feel-good sermon by Oprah Winfrey. If, as the report suggests, “A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything,” who better to give us a glimpse into the heart and soul of this new matriarchy than its most influential matriarch?

Read and comment at The Spearhead…

The Spearhead – “Country Women”

New post up at The Spearhead.

Country Women – The Manly Woman of Honor, Part I

I deliver exercise equipment to people’s homes for a living, and as an amateur sociologist—aren’t we all really amateur sociologists?—that gives me an opportunity to see people in their natural environments.

On the heels of Welmer’s post about women in combat, I’d like to add a few thoughts I’ve had about women, “female masculinity” and honor over the past several years. To begin, I’m going to talk about some different types of women I’ve observed.  Continue reading at The Spearhead.

Yeah, a tribute to women surprised me, too.

Writing About Men is Important

My new piece, “Writing About Men is Important” is up at The Spearhead today.

“Real men don’t read books about masculinity or sit around talking about manhood.”

I’ve heard it more than a few times. Masculinity is associated with action, so men who simply write about men’s issues are sometimes taunted with accusations of defective masculinity. This also plays into the big, dumb, silent thug stereotype that is half-consciously accepted by men, though it only advances the cause of women. My joke that even Conan studied the classics only draws blank stares.

But, by Crom, the truth is that men have been talking about what it means to be a man since the beginning of recorded history. Continue reading at The Spearhead…

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