{"id":5817,"date":"2017-01-31T06:12:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/31\/matriarchy-mitigated-another-trumpian-accomplishment\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T06:12:08","slug":"matriarchy-mitigated-another-trumpian-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/31\/matriarchy-mitigated-another-trumpian-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Matriarchy Mitigated: Another Trumpian Accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The mitigation of creeping matriarchy requires, among other things, a &#39;war&#39; against puellafication. &#0160;I coined the word &#39;puellafication&#39;&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/02\/puellification.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. &#0160;An ugly word for an ugly thing. Christina Hoff Sommers <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2013\/08\/19\/school-has-become-too-hostile-to-boys\/\" target=\"_self\">combats<\/a> the thing.&#0160; While so doing she provides further proof that the Left is devoid of common sense:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Across the country,&#0160;schools are policing and punishing the distinctive,&#0160; assertive sociability of boys. Many much-loved games have vanished from school&#0160; playgrounds. At some schools, tug of war has been replaced with \u201c<a target=\"_self\">tug&#0160; of peace<\/a>.\u201d Since the 1990s, elimination games like dodgeball, red rover and&#0160; <a target=\"_self\">tag<\/a> have been under a cloud \u2014 too damaging to self-esteem and too violent, say&#0160; certain <a target=\"_self\">experts<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Tug of peace?&#0160; Is that a joke?&#0160;Peace is better than war, of course, but to secure and maintain peace one must be prepared to wage and win war.&#0160; Or as the&#0160;Latin saying has it, <em>Si vis pacem, para bellum<\/em>.&#0160; &quot;If you want peace, prepare for war.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Life is competitive and hierarchical. Supervised and respectful competition in the schools on the playing fields and in the classrooms is good preparation for life.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">A little tuggy-wuggy never hurt anybody. Dale Tuggy would approve of this message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And another thing.&#0160; Bring back the monkey bars and the long summer vacations.&#0160; Enough with the wussification.&#0160; (Not a word?&#0160; It is now.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mitigation of creeping matriarchy requires, among other things, a &#39;war&#39; against puellafication. &#0160;I coined the word &#39;puellafication&#39;&#0160;here. &#0160;An ugly word for an ugly thing. Christina Hoff Sommers combats the thing.&#0160; While so doing she provides further proof that the Left is devoid of common sense: Across the country,&#0160;schools are policing and punishing the distinctive,&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/31\/matriarchy-mitigated-another-trumpian-accomplishment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matriarchy Mitigated: Another Trumpian Accomplishment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}