The Man Ain’t What He Used to Be

Alternative Right isn’t carrying Virtus anymore, but they recently published a short essay I wrote. Being a rare homo who is politically to the right and of the mind that heterosexual, reproductive families should be facilitated and should held up as the social ideal in any civilization that wants to survive — I figured I should add my 2 cents.

Richard Spencer’s title was better than the boring one I gave it.

“The Man” Ain’t What He Used to Be – Resisting the Lies of the Ruling Class

Seems to have been fairly well received, aside the obligatory biographical notes added by my persistent and completely obsessed “concern troll” stalker(s).

Vice Magazine Review – “Blood Brotherhood”

John Safran unexpectedly reviewed my second book (co-written with Nathan F. Miller)  about Blood-Brotherhood for Vice. While I do think he over-spun the health concern angle (it should be noted that rites and adaptations of rites were offered that do not involve fluid exchange, precisely because many smart folks will opt out for health reasons), I would like to thank him for some of the best book marketing quotes I have ever received.

“Jack Donovan is a very right wing homosexual. He’s bright, sincere and so idiosyncratic it’s hard to know where to begin.”

– Vice Magazine

“Jack Donovan is an iconoclast.”

– Vice Magazine

“… fresh and truthful reflections on modern masculinity.”

- Vice Magazine

All in all, it was really the most thorough review the book has ever received. He covered the material well, and there is a lot of interesting content in that book that deserves an audience. While the majority of the book talks about rites that sacralized friendships and alliances between heterosexual men, the idea of using blood-brotherhood as an alternative to same-sex “marriage” is still a good one. And at the very least, it’s a novel and aesthetically manly one.

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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.

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I also updated the bio page.

I have been writing as much as I can at Alternative Right. You can always find my most recent work in the Virtus section.

Also recently interviewed Arthur the Viking from Arthur’s Hall of Viking Manliness.

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The Crucible of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

For my thoughts on the issue, see  The Homosexual Question – On Marriage and DADT

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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.

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MAN vs. “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.

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• 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

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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.

The Homosexual Question

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…

JustOut (Portland) – Jack Donovan: “Same-Sex Marriage is Wrong, but Repealing DADT is Right”

http://blogout.justout.com/?p=15484

from key to quire – Beyond left and right: Gays against marriage equality

http://mattheusmei.blogspot.com/2010/03/beyond-left-and-right-gays-against.html

ex cathedra – The androphile strikes again.

http://usmalesf.blogspot.com/2010/03/androphile-strikes-again.html

fawny.org – (the blogger responsible for the recent slanted and innacurate posting on MetaFilter) Still difficult to like.

http://blog.fawny.org/2010/03/21/paleocon/

Lesacre du Printemps – Universalism and Particularism: A Case for Radical Readjustment?

http://lesacred.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/universalism-and-particularism-a-case-for-radical-readjustment/

The Mix Tape – MOGSY’s last, and final, and only words on DADT, and gay marriage too

http://pontifex-mogs.livejournal.com/32617.html

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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

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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.

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