MAN vs. Person, and Whining
I recently spoke about “21st Century Masculinity” to a group of young men at a local private high school. It was an experience I am thankful for, and the kids seemed to enjoy it as well. My write up of my presentation and a bit of the discussion can be found at AlternativeRight.com. One of the key points I wanted to get across is that there’s a difference between being a man and being a person.
Some female writer seems to be offended (I’m shocked) by the possibility that masculinity might not be all about women, and has decided that I am unqualified to write about manhood.
While I am not usually one to compare myself to lesbians, if latent and overt lesbians had been considered unqualified to write about the experience of womanhood and the needs of women, feminism probably wouldn’t have happened (or made much progress at all). I have to wonder if anyone would even hire female writers…because in the majority of truly Traditional societies, no one took the opinions of offended women seriously.
I sometimes like to think of myself as the opposite of a lesbian feminist separatist. I’m not a separatist (the majority of my friends are straight men and I hold up the Traditional family as the ideal and oppose same-sex marriage for that reason), and I’m anti-feminist (I support Traditional sex roles for males and females). I’m also not trying to “recruit” straight men or guide them away from women, as the lady blogger seems to imply. Quite the opposite.
It is kind of funny, though that “Kidist Paulos Asrat” is taking sides with the publisher of White News Now.com. Strange times make strange bedfellows, I guess…
Because I actually do have a penis and have to function in heterosexual male social groups, I feel comfortable in saying I know more about manhood than she does. So maybe she should stop writing about manhood.
What is Whining?
The charge of “whining” comes up a lot, not so much with my writing specifically as when any man, especially a white man, writes about any injustices or skewed perceptions of men or manhood. So I figured I’d give that subject a treatment over at The Spearhead.
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:
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
The Homosexual Question
This essay on DADT may be the most important piece I write this year. It’s a subject that is important to me, and I’ve been working on it for a long time.
It’s a difficult problem if you take it seriously.
How do you find a viable support role for homosexual males in a pro-reproductive, pro-family culture with a stressed or declining population? History tells us that homos get the blame and the stake. Can we do it better this time?
It’s easy to sell any “pro-homo” issue to the left, but it takes balls to try to sell it to the right. I’m pleased with the outcome, and I think I won some “hearts and minds.” What the military is doing to these guys–some of them straight up heroes–is unjust.
Why Same-Sex Marriage Is Still Wrong, But Repealing DADT Is Right
http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/left-right/the-homosexual-question/
From the right, there’s not much to like about gay men.
The highly vocal and visible queer fringe publicly celebrates extreme promiscuity, sadomasochism, transvestitism, transsexuality and flamboyant effeminacy. It is so unabashedly Marxist that even Marx himself would blush. It is anti-military, anti-patriarchal, anti-nuclear family, anti-Christian, aspirationally vegan and virulently anti-Western. Queer theorists—the pink-haired, punk rock stepchildren of feminists—blame straight white men for all of the wickedness the world has to offer.
Gay moderates, much like moderate Muslims, offer their tacit approval to queer extremists because they refuse to openly condemn extreme behavior for fear that they’ll look like traitors, Uncle Toms or hypocrites. Gay conservatives of any variety are scarce as leprechauns, and not nearly so beloved by their lucky fellows when spotted. The average gay man is politically progressive and politically correct, he’s a multiculturalist, and like his fellow progressives he’s particularly enamored with European styles of government, however failed and fundamentally flawed. Read more…
Also, if you’re on the fence on this one, ignore the goofy San Francisco activist shtick of Lt. Choi and watch this video about Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach.
http://www.youtube.com/user/LiftTheBan
To date, the post has been mentioned…
Alternative Right
Laocoön
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
The Life and Times of Sailor Jerry
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”
Patriarchy Works
My latest for The Spearhead…
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.
The Spearhead – Here Come the Herbivores
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.
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.
The Spearhead – Gameness
New review posted to The Spearhead.
A Review of Sam Sheridan's "A Fighter's Heart" at 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.
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