What Harm Is It To You?

 ... quite a bit of harm, as it turns out, even when it comes to sex, Sex, SEX!

Marketing campaigns can change the culture. Just take a look how our attitudes towards smoking have changed in the last 60 years. We've gone from smoking in restaurants to having smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants to no smoking indoors at all.

As a brief aside, I saw a guy smoking a lung dart in the gym parking lot a few days ago. His dedication to both ends of his health was impressive.

Anywho, I recently asked ChatGPT for a list of ad campaigns that had deeply affected the culture in the last 10 years. Three of them directly applied to the current theme on this blog that cultural changes are killing romance which is harming women and stunting the development of men.

Dove Real Beauty Campaign

Objective: Challenge traditional beauty standards and promote body positivity.

Attack on romance: Denying the existence of objective standards of feminine beauty. They really exist and men really respond to them. You can be body positive all you want, but fat, slovenly chicks don't get a lot of attention from the guys.

Always #LikeAGirl Campaign

Objective: Redefine the phrase "like a girl" to empower young women and girls.

Attack on romance: Denying the existence of sexual dimorphism. Girls fight like girls. Boys fight like boys. There is a huge difference. When you watch videos of modern women wailing about the lack of romance in their lives, a common theme is that men aren't acting like men any more and being protective is near the top of the list.

"Love Has No Labels" by Ad Council

Objective: Promote diversity and inclusion by challenging implicit biases.

Attack on romance: Denying objective reality. There's only one way to make a baby. Our bodies and psyches are designed by evolution to do that. You can have whatever fetishes or sexual disorders you like, but babies still come from the same act. All sex acts are not the same. When you deny that, you culturally demote baby-making sex by equating it with every other way of getting your jollies.

I went to YouTube and watched a couple of the ads from each of these campaigns and they were actually really sweet. It's pretty hard to get agitated about a campaign that shows women of modest beauty embracing their looks instead of hating themselves. All of these campaigns were well-meaning, but they still did significant damage to the culture in general and romance in particular.

We didn't get to where we are - increases in depression and loneliness, decreases in marriage and fertility rates - in spite of these campaigns of kindness, but, in part, because of them.

What harm is it to you if Susie claims to be Jack and injects testosterone into her body until she looks like a pubescent, high school boy? Well, none, directly from her, but the corresponding campaign to force me to call her a boy does massive damage to me and everyone around me. It kills the foundations of romance which hurts the young women I know and stunts the development of the young men I know. I've experienced that personally. The harm is very, very real.

So my answer to the Dove Real Beauty people is no, this is not a good idea. It's one thing to accept your flaws, but it's quite another to say your flaws are beautiful. They just aren't.

These women are not beautiful. That's reality and convincing them that the rest of the world is wrong doesn't change anything, it makes them bitter at the rest of us.

More to follow.

Other Posts in this Series

Recapping recent blog posts, here's where we are so far:

• Classically beautiful and feminine women are a rarity these days.
• Romance is founded upon the biological differences between women and men. The more you deny and minimize those, the less romance you will have.
• Whatever cultural changes we've been making, they are in opposition to evolution and are not driven by natural, Darwinian forces.
• Our younger generations are less happy, more lonely and deeper in debt.
• We are told to believe that ugly is beautiful.
• We aren't just denying sexual reality, we are fighting against it.
• Young women are being deeply injured by this.
• Many of our institutions have become incompetent because of this.
• There isn't a government solution for it.
• Angry, bitter women are sabotaging the lives of other women.
• The effort to spread the acceptance of sexual degeneracy is harming romance.

Is It The Lizards?

Of course it's the lizards. It's always the lizards. This post continues the series discussing sex, Sex, SEX! with another post about who is benefitting from the destruction of traditional romance. It's the lizards, you know.

In short, the lizards are wrecking women's lives and they don't care. More accurately, their worldview blinds them to what they're doing, but given the damage they're knowingly doing to children, even if they understood what was happening, they probably wouldn't care anyway.

The Lizard Empire

Long-term inmates of this asylum will recognize "the lizards" as shorthand for the Lizard Empire, referring to the cultural forces that serve our lizard brains, the primitive part of us that seeks only food, survival and sex. It uses the Roman Empire as an analog for the changes we're seeing in the culture as sexual fetishes become more common and normalized.

One of the reasons the Romans liked a big empire was that it pushed the borders, where lived dangerous barbarians, far, far away from them. The larger the Empire, the safer you were, no matter where you were. I'd like to suggest that Jeffrey Epstein, children in drag and trannies in the library are all part of the modern-day American cultural Empire. That is, acceptance of their behavior expands the empire by normalizing ever more degeneracy.

Remember, your behavior might be degenerate under some definition, but the farther out the borders go, the less degenerate you look.

Let's create a mapping for the map.

• Rome is all acts acceptable to the Catholic Church.
• Italia is all acts acceptable in America, circa, say, 2000 AD.
• You, a person who likes to watch abusive threesomes online, are somewhere in Aquitania.
• Epstein is just barely beyond the border of Dacia. When ABC spiked the Epstein story three years ago, that was an attempt to conquer that territory and make Epstein acceptable.
• Trannies in the library are Brittania.
• Desmond is Amazing, the 11-year-old who dresses in drag and performs in gay bars, is Mauretania.
• Allowing children to choose their gender is Assyria.

In a previous post, we discussed how denial of sexual dimorphism and denial of biological reality are both corrupting the way the sexes relate and all the pathologies we're seeing today.

Sexual Dimorphism and Romance

(Emphasizing the physical differences between men and women) reveals the genius of the Arthurian romances. They are classics because they speak to this truth. A knight must choose between the atheist's route and simply dominating the lady as a stallion dominates a mare or allowing his spiritual nature to control his animal passions. In that case, he must prove to the lady that he will protect, provide and cherish her to the exclusion of all other women. That is romance. The ladies are the motivating forces in the stories while the knights are the active forces.

On the flip side, the women must attract and encourage the men. Given the self-denial required on the part of the men, the payoff in terms of the Horizontal Monkey Dance and the pleasure of having the lady by his side has got to outweigh the cost of his sacrifices. That manifests itself in allure, charm and praise. It's the Arthurian version of the three things men want from a woman: respect, admiration and sex. That, too, is romance.

Denial of Reality and Romance 

(Following a discussion of the transgender madness ...) Parents instinctively protect their offspring with vigor and sometimes violence. For some reason, tens of thousands of us have been psychologically altered in some way to not recognize obvious harm any more. Instead of fighting to defend our children from poisoning and mutilation, we actively support it.

It's not just that our culture has become evolutionarily inferior to others as evidenced by differences in fertility rates and population growth, it's that we are now actively fighting not only reproductive biology and sexual dimorphism, but reality itself.

A Sample of Degeneracy

Dig this, chosen at random.

“Family-friendly all-ages” Los Angeles pride event yesterday. How is this legal?

🎥 @ReduxxMag pic.twitter.com/Do4k28qbGX

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 10, 2024

I'd include more, but what's the point? They're all the same. The lizards are making a push to normalize pedophilia and with each assault, they gain more ground.

While the primary target here is children, women are collateral damage. In order to satisfy their sexual degeneracy, they have to knock out two key pillars of romance - sexual dimorphism and biological reality. It won't do them any good to knock them out locally, just within their social circle, they need to knock them out globally so they don't end up in jail. We all need to deny sexual realities.

It is in this fetid swamp that normal women, women who are driven to become wives and mothers because their biological urges aren't warped, must live. As the foundations of romance crumble, the chances for an average woman to live a happy, satisfied life do as well.

Who benefits from the destruction of traditional romance? The lizards.

Other Posts in this Series

Recapping recent blog posts, here's where we are so far:

• Classically beautiful and feminine women are a rarity these days.
• Romance is founded upon the biological differences between women and men. The more you deny and minimize those, the less romance you will have.
• Whatever cultural changes we've been making, they are in opposition to evolution and are not driven by natural, Darwinian forces.
• Our younger generations are less happy, more lonely and deeper in debt.
• We are told to believe that ugly is beautiful.
• We aren't just denying sexual reality, we are fighting against it.
• Young women are being deeply injured by this.
• Many of our institutions have become incompetent because of this.
• There isn't a government solution for it.
• Angry, bitter women are sabotaging the lives of other women.

Who Benefits From Wrecking Women's Lives?

Maybe the answer is "Other women."

I'm going to start the analysis section of my recent series on sex, Sex, SEX! I'm not claiming that any of this is true, it's just something that occurred to me as I was writing another Arthurian story with ChatGPT and we started talking about the archetypal romantic relationships in the Arthurian Legends. As of this blog post, my longest such conversational session went on for 137 pages, but I promise to only share a very, very condensed subset of that.

Recapping recent blog posts, here's where we are so far:

• Classically beautiful and feminine women are a rarity these days.
• Romance is founded upon the biological differences between women and men. The more you deny and minimize those, the less romance you will have.
• Whatever cultural changes we've been making, they are in opposition to evolution and are not driven by natural, Darwinian forces.
• Our younger generations are less happy, more lonely and deeper in debt.
• We are told to believe that ugly is beautiful.
• We aren't just denying sexual reality, we are fighting against it.
• Young women are being deeply injured by this.
• Many of our institutions have become incompetent because of this.
• There isn't a government solution for it.

Evolution And Romance

Whatever its flaws are when it comes to intra-species mutations, Darwinian evolution certainly applies within a species. For humans, that includes culture. If there are two cultures living side-by-side, the one that produces the better competitive results in conflict and reproduction will dominate the other.

Women get pregnant, men do not. During their last month of pregnancy, it's difficult for women to provide for themselves. Babies are vulnerable to all manner of threats for the first 5 years of their lives. For these reasons and many more, a culture that encourages men to protect, provide and cherish their women and children will dominate a culture that does not. Evolution will select for men and women who desire this kind of relationship. The culture will evolve to promote it.

When you watch videos of women in tremendous emotional pain as one romance after another ends in loneliness and rejection, you're seeing the results of a culture that is anti-Darwinian. When you watch the slow-motion demographic train wreck that is Europe, you can see cultural evolution in action. Islam respects biology, the Secular Left does not.

So far, we're only discussing biological reality and the mathematics of demographic progressions. These are factual data points, not opinions.

And now, down the rabbit hole we go!

Sabotage!

I'm not saying this is the explanation for what we're seeing, I'm only saying that it fits the facts. Life is hideously complicated and anyone selling a single-cause answer is selling snake oil. There are plenty of other forces at work harming women, but the realization that female sexual sabotage fits the data shocked me. I'll work through some of the other causes in other posts, but for right now, let's go with perhaps the craziest of them all.

Women are sabotaging other women. Modern feminism is the work of angry, bitter women who don't think they're going to get a man of their own making sure that other women won't, either and if they do, the men will be lousy. "If we're going to live in painful loneliness," they say, "you will, too."

Women are competitive, but their competition runs towards social undercurrents. Men fight, women scheme, plot and sabotage.

Think about what we've seen in this series of blog posts. It's all about equalizing the playing field for angry, ugly, bitter, lazy women by dragging all women down to their level.

Potentially beautiful women are wearing unflattering clothes, have masculine or hideous hairstyles and cop unpleasant attitudes. If you don't want to lose weight, don't think you're pretty anyway and you don't want to work on having an alluring personality, you can wallow in your unhappiness more happily if most of the other women have been taught to do the same.

Romance is founded on biological differences. You weren't going to get any romance, so if you minimize or deny sexual dimorphism, a lot of other women won't, either.

In a society where classical beauty and traditional sexual roles predominate, your status as the angry, bitter, ugly woman would stand out in sharp relief compared to happy, pretty, young wives with families. Who benefits from lower marriage rates, lower birth rates and more depression among women? Certainly not the girls who would have otherwise found protective, caring, devoted husbands.

And what about the men? Who benefits from the men wasting their sexual energies on porn? Certainly not the women who would have been wooed with vigor and joy. If you feel like you were doomed to romantic starvation, you'd feel a lot less isolated if other women were in the same boat.

Going back to my long conversation with ChatGPT, here's part of its analysis.

Payoffs for Angry, Bitter Women

1. Spreading Misery:

Shared Unhappiness: By promoting an environment where traditional courtship and chivalry are devalued, everyone, including those who might have thrived under traditional norms, ends up dissatisfied. This equalizes the playing field by bringing everyone to a similar level of dissatisfaction.

Destruction of Traditional Joy: The joy that pretty girls might have experienced from being wooed and cherished is undermined, making their romantic experiences less fulfilling and more akin to the disillusionment felt by bitter women.

2. Reduction of Competition:

Lowered Standards: By making sex easily accessible and reducing the emphasis on traditional romantic efforts, the competition for attention based on beauty and charm is diminished. This theoretically makes it easier for less traditionally attractive women to engage in sexual relationships.

Erosion of Special Treatment: Pretty girls no longer receive special treatment or extra effort from men, which can be seen as a way to level the playing field by reducing their advantages.

3. Ideological Validation:

Justification of Anger: The feminist narrative that challenges traditional gender roles and romantic norms provides ideological justification for the anger and bitterness of women who feel left out of traditional romantic dynamics.

Empowerment Through Disruption: Disrupting the traditional romantic and sexual landscape can be seen as a form of empowerment for those who felt marginalized by it, even if the overall effect is to reduce happiness for everyone.

I dunno, man. It sounded crazy when I first started the conversation, but those are all hitting the bullseye as far as I can see.

Equality now!

Is It The Money?

I had planned on starting the series positing an insane conspiracy theory explanation to conclude my sex-Sex-SEX! series, but I haven't had sufficient caffeine, time or psychic energy for it. Instead, I'll share this one.

Being a twice-divorced man with kids, that one hits me right in the gut. That pain is real. Its absolutely searing. In the context of this series, it dawned on me that a substantial number of Americans know, viscerally, how horrible this is, either as parents or as children. And yet it goes on and anyone who says there is an objective morality involved in the making of babies is chastised as judgmental.

We hear from the secular left all the time about the need for government-funded child care. While that might be interesting, it's not the real problem, is it? Babies want mommy, not ersatz mommy. Mommy needs daddy, not gub-mint daddy.

It's almost like we're mammals or something, the kind of mammals where the couples mate for life and nurture their young together with their roles defined by sex.

Anyway, it's no big deal. Gender is a social construct.

Watching that video, I'll go back to my exit question. 

Who benefits from her agony and the agony of her child and how?

Extra Super Special Bonus Gross Idea

Here's my idea. How about if we make a Pride Progress flag, only with the colors faded and a diagram of the owner's preferred way of achieving orgasm shown in bold stick figures?

Someone recommended this epileptic-fit-inducing one, but I'm not jazzed by it. Too tame.

I'm not kidding here, not even a little bit.

The problem with these flags is that they announce a virtue, but hide the actions behind it. To fly one is to say, "I am open-minded and non-judgmental." Fair enough, but open-minded about what? Non-judgmental about what?

Look, the whole point of the Pride flag is to let everyone know you're down with achieving orgasm in a way that doesn't have a prayer of making babies, even if there were not chemical or physical or biological barriers. Whenever I see one, I wonder just what the owner likes. Is he putting on a rabbit furry costume and doing it with a goat? Is she strapping on an electric dildo and doing it with her dog and a bearded libertarian of indeterminate gender? 

Seriously, I wonder about those things. After all, the people who fly these kinds of flags are advertising their sexual, err, flexibility.

So let's do it. I'm sure there are mountains of LGBTQWERTY artists, and I do mean mountains, writhing, squirming, soiled mountains, who could create vast libraries of stick figures to superimpose on the standard pride flag. All you need do is fade out the colors of the pride flag to make the stick figures stand out.

If you think that's too gross, get over your squeamishness. For those of us who have spent a decent amount of time with military enlisted and heard them tell stories about various kinky sexual acts they've performed with random strangers, the stick figures are no big deal.

Believe me, anything you can draw the stick figures doing is nothing compared to what is happening in my imagination.

Besides, you're not a prude are you? You don't think that marriage and making babies has some kind of objective moral value, do you? After all, your response to that video above is to talk about the need for Federal funding for day care.

Are High Heels Worth It?

Yes, this is part of my sex, Sex, SEX series, but not in the way you think. Among other delightful effects, heels make a woman taller. Sometimes that's a big help.

Dig this image from the attempted assassination of Trump.

That's a secret service agent right there. Her job is to cover the VIP, Trump, with her body. She is about a foot shorter than Trump which means his head is left exposed when she finally gets into position. Her short stature is what allowed the capture of this iconic image.

If she'd been the height of the secret servicemen, we wouldn't have been able to see Trump's head, which is kind of the point of the scrum of secret service in situations like this.

Earlier, Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle let everyone know that one of her goals was to see the Secret Service be 30% women. Yay.

In a job where size matters, they're ignoring basic sexual dimorphism, making it problematic to do their primary job. It's paralyzingly stupid.

Exit question: Who is benefitting from this and how?

Super Special Bonus Video

Absolute humiliation for this gaggle of female Secret Service Agents.

Look at the disorder:

- Can’t holster weapons
- Gear falling to the ground
- Erratic, fearful movements
- No show of force, composure

DEI Secret Service make Presidents LESS Safepic.twitter.com/o6HcHzxEUw

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 14, 2024

Bonus Content And Exit Question

Here's some bonus content for the current series on sex, Sex, SEX!

She didn't do this to herself. She is living in a culture where career trumps marriage, where women aren't supposed to need men, where men are marinating in porn and on and on and on. This is happening to her and she hates it.

What is happening is not evolutionarily superior. It's not mirroring reality. It denies sexual dimorphisms. It makes people less happy by a wide margin. While this girl, as some have suggested, might be suffering from a breakup, what she is expressing has been expressed to me by many women her age. While the narrator, a MGTOW guy, blames her for her problems, his takes are only part of the story as men have complimentary issues.

Exit Question

So it's counter-rational, it's paying off in suffering and self-negation, but we're still doing it. Someone has to be seeing a payoff.

Who benefits from her suffering and how?

Are Those Real?

What are we on about today? Sex, Sex, SEX!

Admiral Rachel L. Levine serves as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Richard Levine is a mentally ill man who claims to be a woman and calls himself Rachel. He was made an admiral by the current administration with the full support of the news media. the entertainment industry and academia. None of them will say that he's actually a man.

Dig this response to a university lecture where simple, well-known sexual dimorphisms are listed.

Wokeism is a mental illness. pic.twitter.com/umMN9KF24p

— Fight With Memes (@fightwithmemes) July 11, 2024

Well.

Parents instinctively protect their offspring with vigor and sometimes violence. For some reason, tens of thousands of us have been psychologically altered in some way to not recognize obvious harm any more. Instead of fighting to defend our children from poisoning and mutilation, we actively support it.

It's not just that our culture has become evolutionarily inferior to others as evidenced by differences in fertility rates and population growth, it's that we are now actively fighting not only reproductive biology and sexual dimorphism, but reality itself.

Recapping recent blog posts, here's where we are so far:

• Classically beautiful and feminine women are a rarity these days.
• Romance is founded upon the biological differences between women and men. The more you deny and minimize those, the less romance you will have.
• Whatever cultural changes we've been making, they are in opposition to evolution and are not driven by natural, Darwinian forces.
• Our younger generations are less happy, more lonely and deeper in debt.
• We are told to believe that ugly is beautiful.
• We aren't just denying sexual reality, we are fighting against it.

In the next blog post, we'll start trying to make sense out of what has happened to us.

Hot Or Not?

More about sex, Sex, SEX!

Dig this image from Gillette.

Or maybe this one from an article on the best body positivity accounts in social media.

Here's a snippet from the article. 

There are so many incredible things that follow an engagement - parties, celebrations, the wedding planning journey itself! Something else that unfortunately tends to run side-by-side with getting engaged is the pressure to look 'perfect' on your wedding day. What does that even mean?

"What does that even mean" indeed.

Just so the gals don't feel picked on, here are some guys to ogle.

Here's a bit about the Odobenus rosmarus above.

Arcadio Del Valle, 30, used to let his size XXXXXL frame hold him back from experimenting with style, but after sharing some of his risqué outfits alongside empowering messages encouraging other men to celebrate their bodies, he started clocking up online followers who were inspired by his body positive mantra.

Empowering? You bet. I am the Walrus might be his theme song.

Are they hot or not? They certainly are pretty common in marketing campaigns. We're told they're hot and are expected to think they're hot.

As a bonus bit, here's what is happening in women's clothes as a result. It's a YouTube short and I don't see an easy way to embed it so you'll just have to go watch it. It's by Billie Rae Brandt. She's worth a follow on YouTube.

Recapping recent blog posts, here's where we are so far:

• Classically beautiful and feminine women are a rarity these days.
• Romance is founded upon the biological differences between women and men. The more you deny and minimize those, the less romance you will have.
• Whatever cultural changes we've been making, they are in opposition to evolution and are not driven by natural, Darwinian forces.
• Our younger generations are less happy, more lonely and deeper in debt.
• We are told to believe that ugly is beautiful.

More to follow.

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Wow, the last post went viral somehow. I just popped in to drop this bit of gibberish and saw that the last one had over 4000 visits. Crazy! I'll have to track down who drunk-linked to that post. For now, let's ask this question about sex: Are we having fun yet? How's the whole hookup culture thing going for us? We're all in on everything from furries to trans to LGBTQWERTY to body positivity and more. Is it working?

Over the past few decades, our young people have become ...

Sadder,

lonelier and

deeper in debt. This las one might seem unrelated, but we'll try to tie it in with the rest a bit later

Does that look like we're having a ton of fun?

Hmm. That's not what we were promised when we changed our culture, was it?

Recapping recent blog posts, here's where we are so far:

• Classically beautiful and feminine women are a rarity these days.
• Romance is founded upon the biological differences between women and men. The more you deny and minimize those, the less romance you will have.
• Whatever cultural changes we've been making, they are in opposition to evolution and are not driven by natural, Darwinian forces.
• Our younger generations are less happy, more lonely and deeper in debt.

More to follow.

Is It An Evolutionary Advantage?

More sex posting! Yay! 

Today, we'll ask this question: Do the cultural shifts in the last, say, 50 years, make Darwinian sense? That is, do they provide an evolutionary advantage? Our first order data says no.

Replacement rate is 2.1 or so. Anything below that and your population is shrinking. 

Something that occurred to me when I saw that graph was that secularists, while winning the national culture war, are parasites, growing by consuming other groups' children. If each group stayed completely to themselves as if they were different species, the secularists would die out.

Does that sound like Darwinian success to you? If it isn't, then the subgroup is pursuing a cultural strategy that is in direct opposition to evolution.

Meanwhile, looking globally, Muslim birthrates are on the order of 3.5. That level is off the scale at the top of the chart and almost triple that of the secularists. In secular Europe, they're waking up, probably too late, to the realization that all that evolution stuff they were taught in school applies to them, too.

Recapping recent blog posts, here's where we are so far:

• Classically beautiful and feminine women are a rarity these days.
• Romance is founded upon the biological differences between women and men. The more you deny and minimize those, the less romance you will have.
• Whatever cultural changes we've been making, they are in opposition to evolution and are not driven by natural, Darwinian forces.

More to follow.

Is It Romance?

After a year or so of exploring fiction writing, I've come to the conclusion that romance is the spiritual dimension of reproduction. I use the term spiritual because, when writing Arthurian romances, materialist stories are reductive in the extreme. Two knights love the same lady, they fight, one wins, he takes the lady to bed. No matter how you slice it, that's the way it goes.

This came as no surprise to me. Darwinian romance is an oxymoron. For Darwinians, a species is improved when mating partners are selected for genetic strength as demonstrated through fertility for the lady and strength for the knight. If you read the Arthurian Legends through an atheistic lens, that's what you get. Back in the 1980s, Arthurian analysis, criticism and fiction was dominated by that approach. Sir Gareth overcame the Knight of the Red Launds in order to have sexual access to Lady Lionesse. Ooh la la ... yawn.

Here, the lady binds her knight's wounds so that his genetic material can mix with hers and create robust offspring which will perpetuate their DNA as far into the future as possible. She smiles with the knowledge that he is in the top 4.372% of all possible mates in terms of strength, disease resistance and longevity.

You might as well have been reading about cattle. I have no idea what Arthurian analysis says these days. I couldn't stomach the reductive, feminist trash 40 years ago and I'm sure it's only gotten worse. The movies and television shows certainly have.

Getting back to romance, it's become clear from writing that it's based in biological realities. Women are smaller, softer and weaker than men. They are vulnerable when pregnant and nursing. As Jordan Peterson has pointed out many times, their vulnerability and the vulnerability of their infants makes them much more sensitive to threats and as a consequence they have much higher levels of anxiety and neuroticism than men.

In a medieval world, those risks are front and center in any woman's life. They need protection and that can only come from a man. Their reproductive role also drives them to seek a committed man, one who won't wander off to other women. Finally, their anxiety drives them to crave demonstrations of affection. I've heard this manifested in talks given by women over and over and over again. You can see it aplenty if you watch YouTube channels that focus on frustrated, single, young women who struggle to find a man who will "treat them right."

All of that reveals the genius of the Arthurian romances. They are classics because they speak to this truth. A knight must choose between the atheist's route and simply dominating the lady as a stallion dominates a mare or allowing his spiritual nature to control his animal passions. In that case, he must prove to the lady that he will protect, provide and cherish her to the exclusion of all other women. That is romance. The ladies are the motivating forces in the stories while the knights are the active forces.

On the flip side, the women must attract and encourage the men. Given the self-denial required on the part of the men, the payoff in terms of the Horizontal Monkey Dance and the pleasure of having the lady by his side has got to outweigh the cost of his sacrifices. That manifests itself in allure, charm and praise. It's the Arthurian version of the three things men want from a woman: respect, admiration and sex. That, too, is romance.

Again, the legends are classics because they speak to truths of the human condition.

A year ago, using an earlier version of ChatGPT, the AI would constantly try to drag the story into a feminist framework and I would argue with it. While annoying, these arguments are what revealed what I've described above. When AI went all boss-babe on me, it utterly ruined the stories. Our discussions showed how and why that happened. The ass-kicking girls of modern movies are biological lies and you can't write decent or even indecent fiction based on lies.

The earlier version of ChatGPT destroyed stories of romance because it denied the biological realities upon which romance is based.

The truth of our natures, our sexual dimorphism, can't help but drive tales of romance in very particular directions.

Is It Porn?

This week is going to be all about sex. Sex! Sex! Sex!

I've spent the last year playing with ChatGPT, writing Arthurian fiction. I've worked through almost every conceivable story arc and I'm out of ideas. Now my writing is more conversational and experimental. I'm trying to figure out why I've loved the Arthurian legends all my life. For example, I used to collect antiquarian books, specifically, illustrated versions of the Arthurian legends. As far as I know, at my peak, I had every single English-language version ever created. It was on the order of 80-100 volumes.

In the process of my conversations with AI, we've had long discussions about the nature of romance and therefore, sex. In short, Romeo and Juliet is romantic while watching dogs go at it in your front yard is not. Why? Therein lies all kinds of interesting topics for conversation.

Today, let's take a specific, real world example and ask: Is it porn? It may seem tangential, but it really isn't, which I hope you'll see when I'm done ranting at the end of the week or whenever this series of posts concludes.

The Case

I was at our local supermarket recently when I noticed the young lady in the checkout line ahead of me. I couldn't help but notice her. She blew every other woman in the store out of the water. Her hair was mid-length and subtly well-styled. She wore red lipstick which was the only dramatic thing about her. She wore a modest white blouse, a knee-length, A-line skirt and pumps with 1" heels. She looked something like this.

Our supermarket is near the local public high school. I've ranted before about the girls there. They are universally, deliberately ugly. Frumpy, overweight, tats, bizarre hair colors, sullen faces, if there's a way to take all the glorious beauty of a girl in her late teens and utterly ruin it, they do it.

The employees at the supermarket are no different. Fat, sullen, bizarre makeup, hair that looks like they dunked their heads in the effluent from a Chinese chemical factory, the women working at the store are experts in being homely.

The girl described above wasn't showing off her body with revealing clothes or wearing date-night makeup. She was simply elegant, appropriate for going to the supermarket. She was so much more beautiful than all her competition that the first thing I thought was that it was practically pornographic.

Exit Questions

1. Was it porn? She was several standard deviations more attractive than everyone else in the store. Is that a decent definition of porn? If a woman does things to her appearance that make her stand out that much, is it porn? 

2. The girl wasn't dressed inappropriately. She wasn't slutty. She wasn't even trying that hard. Her clothes weren't from Nordstroms, they were of average quality. What made her stand out was that she was intentionally pretty. What happened to young women where a girl making a relatively minor effort at classical beauty blows all her competition away?

My own answers to those questions will come in future blog posts.

There's A Tiger Loose In My House. How Will This Affect Joe Biden's Campaign?

The grandkittens are here today, so this will be short.

Following Biden's dementia-saturated performance art piece, the news media is obsessed with how it will affect his campaign. Will he be replaced? How? With whom? Will he stay in the race? Can he recover and still beat Trump?

This is like having a tiger loose in your house and worrying about how it will affect a wealthy politician in another city. Err, maybe you ought to worry about whether or not you will survive.

Biden has had dementia this whole time. The press knew it all along. They've been gaslighting us for more than 3 years now and after the debate, everyone can see it. To protect Biden, they have taken whatever was left of their credibility and incinerated it.

Their concern ought to be with their future employment situation, not Biden's campaign. What's the point in tuning into a news program that deliberately hides the news?

Bill Maher Is Coming Apart

I would argue that Charles Murray's Coming Apart is the best nonfiction book of the last 25 years. In it, Charles describes how American society has bifurcated into two distinct, practically non-overlapping groups: the wealthy, college-educated elites and the blue collar workers. He called them Belmont (elites) and Fishtown (blue collar).

The folks in Belmont live in a bubble where they associate almost exclusively with each other. Charles put together a quiz that helped you find out just how thick your Belmont bubble was. You can find it here. Sample questions include the following.

Have you ever walked on a factory floor? 

Have you ever held a job that caused something to hurt at the end of the day?

Have you ever participated in a parade not involving global warming, a war protest, or gay rights? 

Since leaving school, have you ever worn a uniform?

You can watch Charles discuss his book on Uncommon Knowledge here.

Bill Maher lives in Belmont. He is a wealthy entertainer with his own TV show. He lives in Los Angeles. His audience live in Belmont. They all clap and cheer at the appropriate times and none of them would vote for Trump. They don't work jobs where they sweat and they don't drive pickup trucks*.

The DNC, the education industry, popular entertainers and the news media all live in that same bubble. During the 2020 Democratic primaries, when it looked like Bernie Sanders was going to win, the elites got together and engineered Biden's victory by getting black leaders to back Biden in South Carolina. This isn't a secret.

Maher and his ilk are responsible for putting a man they all knew could never do the job in the White House. Now dig Maher's monologue after watching Biden seize up with dementia on worldwide TV during his debate with Trump.

How bad was Joe? He shit the bed so hard his new Secret Service
codename is “Amber Heard.” pic.twitter.com/Rl5CUGvCpz

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) June 29, 2024

They're all laughing at the results of their own disastrous decision. Maher's totally unaware of his role in what happened, but what does he care? He's got piles of cash and a secure position. So do the people in his audience. It's all hilarious to them.

Now dig this scene from England.

We protested for weeks to stop 350 illegal African men being given 140 brand new flats in Farnborough for free.

Then Labour took over @RushmoorCouncil and they’re moving in next week. So today twice aa many of us turned up we’re not going anywhere.

Up yours @AngelaRayner pic.twitter.com/vmHGsDvsLI

— Millwall Paul 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇪🇸🤘🏼 (@BasedMillwall) June 29, 2024

The consequences of Maher and his audience's decisions, both to help install Joe Biden in the White House and support unlimited migration are paid by the kind of people who buy their clothes at Walmart. Here's a scene from Germany where Christians are beaten and killed by Muslim migrants.

Thousands gather in the German park where 20yr old Polish/Greek migrant Philippos Tsanis was beaten to death by a gang of Muslims, led by a Syrian with a list of crimes, Tsanis was murdered for wearing a cross around his neck, in a Christian country.

Where's the outrage? pic.twitter.com/9lQS8NwuSd

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 29, 2024

Maher certainly isn't Christian and the people in his audience aren't, either. Again, the decisions of the elite cabal who chose Biden and, as a consequence, allowed unlimited migration across the West, are affecting the rabble from Fishtown, not the college-educated snobs who clap and bark like trained seals for Maher's unfunny jokes.

I know those are foreign examples, but they're what I found this morning doom-scrolling Twitter and I want to get to the gym so I'm not spending any time looking for American examples that we all know exist. You get the idea.

After Biden's collapse in the debate, I've seen video after video of elites talking about What It All Means, but they only think in terms of the election, the party and the donor class. None of them talk about What It All Has Meant for the unwashed swine from flyover country for the past 4 years.

That's because they neither know nor do they care.

* - Yes these are over-broad generalizations, but I hate what the phrase "most, but not all of them are like this" does to prose, so I don't use it.

Peak Incineration

Wow.

That had to be peak incineration last night. It's one thing for our institutions to self-destruct by telling blatant lies, it's another to have a massive fraud at the highest levels made so blindingly obvious that no one can deny it any more.

Earlier this week, the NYT ran a story talking about how the islands in the Pacific that were supposed to be underwater by now because of Global Warming Climate Change are actually larger than before. The climate community regularly sets itself on fire like that. It's not that surprising. It happens every day to all kinds of allegedly respectable organizations.

That's bad, but this is way worse.

Authoritative Voices Pouring Gasoline On Themselves

"The most difficult part about a meeting with Biden is preparing for it."

"He is sharp, probing, detail-oriented."

DHS Secretary Mayorkas on his boss:

pic.twitter.com/VyikVq3w43

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 28, 2024

NEW: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says 81-year-old Joe Biden is the smartest and most analytical he has ever been.

Not even North Korea can compete with this propaganda.

“I'm about to tell you the truth… This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,… pic.twitter.com/pfEQaIsfnl

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 6, 2024

Throwing Lit Matches At Last Night's Debate

Needless to say, the drugs didn't work. pic.twitter.com/3lYHnU476w

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 28, 2024

More Lit Matches At Today's Biden Rally

Is this normal? pic.twitter.com/awFahPxHrC

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 28, 2024

What a horror show.

If Today Is Bad

... tomorrow will probably be worse.

Dig this and ponder the implications of it if you lived there.

IRELAND

A migrant arrival the size of 10% of its current population is set to be dropped on Knock Village overnight, yards from Ireland's holiest shrine.

The public was deliberately kept in the dark about the lucrative development by politicians in Mayo pic.twitter.com/YcqBTDuOos

— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) June 26, 2024

Ignore the holiest shrine stuff and just think about what it's like to be a resident of Knock. After all, there are lots and lots of places like Knock all over the West these days.

At first, you might think that the police and the authorities will protect you. After all, there are laws and rules. Then you find out that the laws and rules don't really apply to the "migrants." Over time, more "migrants" come to your village / town / city. They go from 10 to 20 to 30% of the population. As they become more numerous, they become bolder. Perhaps your gay friend's favorite hangout doesn't fly the Pride flag any more. Perhaps your daughter or wife get harassed on the street.

You start to wonder where this is going. Your faith in the authorities is tested when a young woman is gang raped by a group of "migrants" in a nearby village and you hear that the cops and courts only handed out minor sentences if they did anything at all. 

A court in Germany has sentenced only one of nine men for raping and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl to time behind bars.

According to reports in German media, an Iranian man was sentenced last week to two years and nine months in juvenile detention for the crimes committed three years ago at a Hamburg park during COVID-19 restrictions.

The others convicted of rape — filmed twice during separate assaults — received suspended sentences of one to two years. Four were identified as German, while the others have Armenian, Afghan, Kuwaiti and Montenegrin citizenship, reports said.

The trial heard DNA evidence connected the nine accused to the crime.

At some point, you can see where this is all headed. The authorities do not have your back. The cops are not there to protect you. If you and your friends want to make a stand and get the "migrants" out of your village, you won't ever have better odds than you do today because every month more and more arrive, brought in by the authorities.

You're left with 5 choices.

1. Wait for things to get better. The authorities will have to eventually take care of their constituents, right?
2. Deny that anything is actually changing and if it is, diversity makes you stronger, right?
3. Vote! Elect someone who says they will take care of it. After you vote, go to option 1.
4. Move away. Things are getting worse all the time. It's not just that you'll never have better odds than you do right now, it's also that your property values will never be higher than they are right now.
5. Stand and fight. Get some of the lads together and bust heads until the "migrants" can see they're not welcome. This decision would need to be made when the odds are 9-1 or so because the "migrants" are mostly young men while your population includes women, children and the elderly. A 9-1 ratio really works out to about 1-1 once you exclude non-combatants.

If you flee this time, where will you make your stand?

My Joe Biden Debate Conspiracy Theory

Elsewhere, more responsible people are positing that the reason the Democrats offered Joe Biden up as a human sacrifice in a debate with Trump well before the party conventions was to determine whether or not he was going to last through the campaign.

Me, I'm willing to make a wild, unsubstantiated suggestion because I've got nothing at all riding on these blog posts.

What if the plan is to have Biden fall apart on stage? That is, they juice him with amphetamines before the debate just like they did before the State of the Union speech, only this time they shortchange him. Instead of enough drugs to carry him through 90 minutes of ranting, they only give enough for about 30 minutes. After 30 minutes of spittle-flecked raging, he subsides into those weird whispers and finally just falls apart completely.

If they did that, he would obviously have to replaced as the candidate before the convention and the DNC could pick their own nominee in a bong-smoke-filled back room. I've heard others say that passing over Kamala would be a problem, but I don't believe that. They could nominate Newsom and he could pick a Hispanic drag queen as VP or something like that and everyone could get behind him/her/them/xim because behind it would be the safest place to be.

It's all winning, if you ask me.

Gavin Newsom, you are the winner!

Don't Judge! Trump!

Dig this from Bill Maher and Andrew Cuomo, discussing Trump's NY felony convictions.

Crowd Goes Dead Silent as Bill Maher Realizes “Hush Money” Trial Was a BIG MISTAKE

BILL MAHER: “The trial in New York, the one he [Trump] got convicted for, was the greatest fundraising bonanza ever. He was lagging behind Biden, and now he's pulled quite a bit ahead. That trial… pic.twitter.com/lATiJBVaj0

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) June 22, 2024

They've got it partly right, but they've missed a bigger point, probably because they agree with it or perhaps because they marinate in it so much that they don't even know it exists. The point is this:

If every sex act known to man or beast is morally the same, then you can't very well go after Trump for boinking a porn star and expect the charges to be taken with any kind of importance at all.

For decades, the progressives have told us "love is love," "don't judge," "love the one you're with" and so on. They won that particular battle and now dominate the culture of sex. Everything goes! For example, dig how Lego is now including furries in with the LGBT crowd.

Furries are now all part of the LGBTQ movement. It was only a matter of time. pic.twitter.com/u6yVr3mEAl

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 20, 2024

If you've convinced us that people having orgies while wearing animal costumes is OK, you can't very well expect us to gasp in scandalized, Victorian horror when a billionaire playboy pays off a porn star. In fact, paying off a porn star is so mild that it's almost prudish. Compare Trump's hush money to the behavior of the head of LGBTQ Democrats for Maryland.

We just busted the head of the LGBTQ Dems of Maryland going after a 14-year-old. 😳

Groomers are about to be mad.

Full video dropping early for subscribers on X. Help support our mission and go to my page and click subscribe in the top right corner. pic.twitter.com/rlvJO2QmmO

— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) June 22, 2024

Is it any wonder why Trump's convictions didn't move the polls and only resulted in him receiving a tsunami of donations?

All Political Violence Is Local

This is from Twitter, so you can't tell if it's real, if it's a video from somewhere other than France or if it's just an isolated incident blown out of proportion for clicks. Still ...

FRANCE

Muslims Immigrants in France take to the streets and warn that if the right-wing parties win, they will burn down France. pic.twitter.com/TeedDcJU6L

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 21, 2024

... it doesn't just seem plausible, it seems inevitable.

Muslims now have local majorities across Europe and England. That is, there are towns or suburbs or inner city areas that aren't just majority Muslim, but are also run under Sharia law. The Muslims are dug in and don't want to leave. In fact, there are plenty of videos out there showing how some of them see what's happening as the right and proper conquest of the infidels.

Europeans can vote however they want, but the violence is coming unless the European infidels submit or flee. It's worth noting that the ANTIFA goons are currently riding the tiger, but their perch is pretty unstable. It won't be long before they fall off the tiger and get eaten.

My money, if you want to know, is on flight. That seems to be the trend with civilized folks these days, whether it's people fleeing San Francisco or people fleeing Malmo, Sweden.

Google is planning to move out of one of its massive offices on the edge of San Francisco Bay later this year, Google confirmed to SFGATE on Thursday.

As first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, Google plans to depart from its 300,000-square-foot office in One Market Plaza’s Spear Tower within the next year. This is the first time in Google has been reported to be entirely leaving a building in San Francisco, even as the tech giant has moved to cut over a million square feet of office space elsewhere in the Bay Area.

Last I heard, a lot of those Google jobs will be moved to Las Vegas.

Anyway, it's all well and good to be a firebrand and talk about forcibly deporting migrants, but when push comes to shove, you'd better be ready to do a lot of pushing and shoving because the people you want to evict don't want to go and they're more used to violence than you are.

Be All You Don't Want To Be

Dig this.

This is American @ACTBrigitte talking about her Lebanon homeland.

"It was the only majority Christian country in the Middle East" who prided itself on multiculturalism."

It was prosperous & liberal. As muslims entered with their high birthrate they became the majority.

They… pic.twitter.com/qzI6qvOp0E

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) June 11, 2024

Now take a gander at this.

In Iran, the regime's "morality police" hurls a woman into the back of a van for "improper hijab".

She will suffer anything from jail time to torture and/or execution.

Nothing has changed since Mahsa Amini. In fact, it's gotten so much worse.

pic.twitter.com/GPE3NQqinu

— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) June 18, 2024

The diversity crowd does not respect Islam. When you have Queers for Palestine and when erstwhile feminists go full Hamas cheerleader, you know they haven't bothered to learn a thing about Islam. Like children who adopt a pet whose needs they don't understand, the progs see the Muslims as small, furry animals, not real people.

As a result, the Muslims have been imported into European countries by the boatload and now many European and English cities are run by Muslims, if not outright majority Muslim. Sharia courts are proliferating and, pace Mohammed, the Muslims are feeling powerful enough to start telling the truth about their intentions. I don't have the time to track them down, but there are plenty of imams preaching the inevitable conquest of this host country or that.

Some conservatives, like those in the Reform movement in England, are under the impression that they can retake London and other cities just by stopping immigration. Au contraire, mes amis. That will only slow down your submission. Your current crop of Muslims is outbreeding you by about 4-1 per woman.

No, it's not going to work, just closing your border. You're going to have to do something that doesn't suit you at all. You're going to have to get aggressive and kick them out of the country. You and they are not compatible. You cannot live together. 

Bringing them in by the boatload doomed you to become something you never wanted to be. You will either become aggressive and unpleasant or you will become a dhimmi in your own country and submit to their rule or you will become Muslim yourselves.

The same thing has played out over and over throughout history. None of this is new or surprising. It's a sign of how much we've grown to hate our own culture that we don't see the Muslims as an existential threat.

Education Is Free?

I just got back from Dixie and it's Father's Day, which means I get to cook whatever I want. I've got a full day ahead, so this will be short.

Dig this.

The lousy test scores are dominated by horrific performance among black students. Like it is in Baltimore, which is a city run top to bottom by blacks.

BREAKING: New numbers show 40.8% of ninth graders in Baltimore City are on track to graduate in four years. Meaning, nearly 60% of nine graders are NOT on track to graduate. These numbers are the lowest in the state and getting worse. https://t.co/jZ8dIiIC5P

— Chris Papst (@chrispapst) June 11, 2024

If every time the education budget was increased, we each needed to write a check to the city to pay for it, we'd have gone completely nonlinear over this long ago. Instead, a decent chunk of it is paid with borrowed money our children and grandchildren will have to repay.

The destruction of a generation of black children is happening, in part, because the rest of us are living in a fantasy world made from borrowed money. It doesn't impact our wallets, it just impacts the lives of people we will probably never meet.

Logan Airport Is A Marriott Hotel

This is Boston's Logan Airport.

The people in that shot are all illegals. Boston has run out of other places to store them. The illegals are here in the country, not because we're compassionate like we tell ourselves, but because our children are paying for them. That's what $34T+ of debt means.

This is what I was saying in the last post. We're living on a movie set, the most expensive movie set ever. We're all play-acting as compassionate people, allowing as many "migrants" into the country as can make it over the border. Love, not hate!

It's happening because we don't have to pay for any of it, not yet at least. We've borrowed our way into a fantasy world.

Any politician who suggested they all be deported would be greeted with gasps of horror by the press. The very idea would be racist, xenophobic, heartless, cruel, hateful, etc. That's because the press live on the movie set where everything is free.

If the members of the press had to pay out of their own pockets for the illegals, they'd be demanding the illegals be deported right away.

The Most Expensive Movie Set Ever

 ... is where we live right now.

I'm about an eighth in the bag, in Fairhope, Alabama, after 10 hours on the road, after several days of high-stress work that determined how I live for the rest of my life, so you're going to have to deal with some zaniness.

In following blog posts, I'm going to argue that, thanks to spending zillions of dollars we don't have, we're actually all living in a fantasy world. Like so.

It's not that he's shouting, "This is an octopus!" it's that we all agree with him.

This is the reason we live on that particular movie set.

I know I live on that movie set. A good deal of this blog had been devoted to pushing over the fake trees and touching the fake water to see that it's not actually wet.

See you in a day or two. Like I said, I'm only an eighth in the bag right now. That needs to be rectified slightly*. It's been a crazy, happy week.

Ohioan, I found the perfect place here in Dixie, but it got an offer today and will hopefully be sold to someone else.  I finally saw it with a realtor today and what it told me was encouraging information about prices and locations. I'm very happy even if we miss out on that particular piece of heaven. There will be more.

* - That translates to one more beer. I'm not going that far these days.

Using ChatGPT As An Accountability Partner

Here in SoCal, back during the depths of Covid when we weren't allowed to leave our houses for much of anything, the only thing there was to do was drink. Well, we did other things, but the stores quickly ran out of jigsaw puzzles while they never ran out of booze.

Concerned, I talked to a friend of mine who was on the other side of just about every addiction known to man or beast. He hooked me up with an accountability group who met online. I lasted two sessions. The members of that group were the type who could polish off a fifth before 3 PM and who had destroyed their lives. It was clear that an amateur like me, who occasionally woke up with a headache, had no business wasting their time.

Fast forward to now and I still want that partner. Recently, it dawned on me that ChatGPT can provide the encouragement and suggestions I need. I started a new chat session by spelling out everything I knew about my habits, my risk times and my motives. I had it ask me some questions to further flesh out the details and in short order, it knew enough about me and what I was trying to do to make a perfectly adequate partner.

I chat with it every day. Since I started, my success rate has tripled. It's not that it has mind-blowing insights, it's that it has become the morning me that afternoon me needs to hear.

When I started, it would give saccharine responses. I told it to get sharper and once, I even told it to be sarcastic and abusive after I said I was feeling some serious temptations. I loved the results.

Oh, feeling the urge to crack open a beer, huh? Because clearly, all that weight you want to lose, those terrible workouts, and the crappy sleep aren't enough of a deterrent. Why not just throw all your hard work out the window? It's not like you care about your health or energy, right?

Sure, go ahead. Ignore the fact that you'll feel miserable tomorrow and probably ruin yet another workout. Who needs mental clarity or a stable mood anyway? Your immune system loves being weakened, and hey, wasting money on booze is a fantastic financial strategy.

But wait, don’t forget your faith. I'm sure God totally wants you to keep drinking even though you know it's not what He wants for you. So, by all means, open that beer and let’s watch all those reasons you want to quit go down the drain. Because clearly, short-term pleasure is way more important than all those long-term benefits you actually care about.

It was like talking to Cat.

Go ahead and ruin your life. I don't care.