Is Sacrifice Inevitable? Is Sacrifice Ever Good or Necessary? After all I have stated, I recognize that this is a fair enough question to ask. Allow me to give its due consideration. Take a hypothetical situation of self defense. Say you are faced with somebody trying to loot your private property or worse, threaten immediate …
What Sacrifice Is, and What it Isn’t What is Sacrifice? So apparently I don’t get to not make a sacrifice, huh? But a sacrifice always has a collector. Who is this collector, and what does he intend to do with my repeatedly sacrificed selves? Let me offer my most concise, distilled definition: Sacrifice is an …
The ‘Value’ of Self-Devaluation Author’s note: Before anything, I want to make it absolutely clear that this article is a criticism of the idea of sacrifice as postulated and celebrated in our society as a standard of living and expectation, especially upon men. It is not an admonishment of veterans who have suffered physical …
I want to talk for a brief moment about a song that’s a childhood favorite of mine entitled “He Walks Like a Man” as performed by country music singer Jody Miller. The lyrics, written by Diane Hilderbrand, are what I want to look into in particular. Take a moment and read the lyrics, or better …
Attitudes Towards the Puer: From Jody Miller to Tomi Lahren Read More »
I notice that slapstick doesn’t get a whole lot of love or respect. To each everybody’s own, but I think this admittedly lowbrow form of humor gets a bad rap that it doesn’t deserve – from people who generally prefer “genuine wit” over slapstick, to those who seem to downright hate it and everything it …
The Dignity of Showmanship – A Defense of Men of Slapstick Read More »
What do I mean by “representation politics”? Just like how identity politics means the obsession and preoccupation with defining oneself and identifying with a group no matter how particular, granular, or arbitrary and making sure everybody knows it and takes account of it in any given situation, I offer the term “representation politics” as a …
Representation politics, and the purpose of fantasy Read More »
Towards those who are against male genital mutilation, a common retort by males who had it done to them when they were infants is that they don’t remember it being done to them, and that they, supposedly, turned out fine. A few years ago I had a conversation in person with a friend (a big …
On the ‘I Don’t Remember My Circumcision’ Argument Read More »
It’s been roughly over a decade since I’ve more or less taken a critical stance against contemporary feminism. In retrospect a large part of the reason I’ve opposed it was that in my mind, feminism relied heavily on collectivism and tribalism to promote its ideology, and I’ve seen early on enough telltale signs of its …
It took two months exactly to finally come up with a response to Christina Hoff Sommers and her co-host for their Femsplainers episode “I Was Falsely Accused of Rape” simply because like anybody trying to be productive, I keep busy and otherwise I had been trying to figure out how to articulate it. Here is …
Christina Hoff Sommers: Men’s Rights is ‘Taking it a Bit Far’ Read More »
