Category: Men and Women
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A Curious Use of ‘Essence’
J. K. Rowling: Being a woman isn't an essence, it's a material, provable fact. I'm not a female human being because society or history made me one, or because I picked the 'woman' category on some metaphysical spreadsheet. I'm a woman because I was born with the equipment to produce large gametes.
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Who Put the ‘Man’ in ‘Manufacture’?
A congresswoman asked the question recently. It is a question from a fem-Dem that exposes her ignorance. There is no 'man' in 'manufacture' in the way there is a 'bomp' in the "bomp bah bomp bah bomp" and a 'ram' in the "rama lama ding dong." 'Manufacture' is built out of two Latin words, manus,…
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On the ‘Congressional Catfight’
Some friends to my Right think women have no place in politics. I strongly disagree. But there's no denying that the recent 'catfight' in Congress supplies these extreme Righties with ammo. Tulsi Gabbard is one member of the distaff contingent who has more right to be in politics than a lot of men I could…
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Why Do Men Dominate in Chess?
Here at Quillette.
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Universal Suffrage
I wrote, on 4 March, The war is over the soul of America. The question concerns whether we should (i) preserve what remains of America as she was founded to be, and (ii) restore those good elements of the system bequeathed to us by the Founders, while (iii) preserving the legitimate progress that has been made (e.g.…
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On the Gender-Neutral Use of ‘Man’
Top o' the Stack. Roger Donway writes, As I understand it, there are no "gender-neutral" nouns or pronouns in English. There is the masculine gender, the feminine gender, the neuter gender, and the common gender. The last applies to entities which have sex, but in contexts where both sexes are included or the sex is…
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Distaff Tribalism
You may complain, with justification, that women are more tribal than men, but the point needs to be balanced by the observation that they are also more familial, social, communal, helpful, group-oriented, and nurturing. Where would we be without them?
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Masculinity
Substack latest.
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Masculinity
Out and about yesterday, I caught a bit of Dennis Prager's radio show. He defended Daniel Penny's behavior in his confrontation with Jordan Neely as masculine, using the word correctly. In our infantilized, feminized, and left-dominated and therefore crime-tolerant society, Penny's behavior will be called toxically masculine by our political enemies. But to anyone who…
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The Double Denial by the ‘Woke’
It is not unreasonable to maintain that there is no God and that nature alone exists. But suppose you take it a step further and deny nature as well. Then you are in the precincts of 'woke' lunacy. Call it the Double Denial. One way to deny nature is by denying that the biotic underpins…
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Why are Women ‘Over-Represented’ among Realtors?
Here is my Substack answer to the title question together with a healthy serving of conceptual analysis as part of my ongoing quest to disembarrass sad wokeheads and Dementocrats of their fatuities, fallacies, and overall intellectual feculence. ('Feculence' as you may know is from feces.) I am being polite. I am showing some 'class.' But…
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His Story
History is largely His Story, but part of that story is how place was made, by men mainly, but not solely, for Her Story.
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Word of the Day: Cack-Handed
Substack latest. Short. Entertaining. Makes important points about language and male-female relations. Improve your vocabulary. Read it! Leftists, especially those of the 'woke'-Orwellian stripe, do not want you to have a large vocabulary. They do not want you to be able to think in a nuanced manner.
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Why Women are ‘Over-Represented’ among Realtors
Have you ever wondered why women are 'over-represented' among realtors? It is because they excel men when it comes to conciliation and mediation. I don't mean this as a snarky put-down of the distaff contingent. I mean it as praise. And if females do not take it as praise, are they not assuming the superiority…
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Kadın erkeğin şeytanıdır
"Woman is man's devil." (Turkish proverb) Never underestimate the power of concupiscence to derange, disorient, and delude. When Spanish bishop Xavier Novell resigned last month, the Roman Catholic Church cited strictly personal reasons without going into detail. It has now emerged in Spanish media that he fell in love with a woman who writes Satanic-tinged…