tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263216962024-03-07T18:43:51.873+00:00Men's MemesA blog and website for any man searching for freedom, prosperity and peace of mind. Escape from the matriarchal herd and join the rebel alliance here. Women, relationships, psychology and technology are amongst the many topics I discuss. Welcome to the dawn!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger691125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-25278467810391910262014-10-23T10:38:00.002+00:002014-10-23T10:38:32.595+00:00More on Gamergate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Milo Yiannopoulos:</b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/21/Incredibly-GamerGate-is-winning-but-you-won-t-read-that-anywhere-in-the-terrified-liberal-media" target="_blank">the Intel vice president who told me via email that GamerGate was "doing great work" and that he was "sick of slander and self-loathing from the press". He was talking about male journalists who do misandrist feminists' work for them.</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-15740164980321923382014-10-21T07:25:00.001+00:002014-10-21T07:41:13.507+00:00An update on feminist activities online<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm not really that involved with the online sex wars so much these days. Partially because I just don't have the time, but also because I got bored with the forums etc. However, I'm still interested in the ideas themselves, or, rather, I can't help but get angry when I hear or see some new BS. Once you are attuned to it, you can't ignore it.<br />
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A few little blips have popped-up on my radar in recent months.</div>
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There seems to be greater hysteria than ever about rape. We seem to be hearing about it more and more, and there is ever greater drama and social-media screaming whenever anyone suggests that one type of rape (e.g. violent) might just be worse than other (e.g. a woman has already had sex with a man before, and goes to bed with him, but then changes her mind but doesn't really say anything). To anyone with any common sense left (an ever diminishing breed) this might seem perplexing. After all, surely most crimes are made worse by the presence of violence? For example, would you not see any difference between a burglary and a burglary that also involved a violent attack? To say that the burglary with a violent attack was worse is not to deny that the one without wasn't still a violation. So why can't feminists admit that there are degrees of severity with rape? Well I think the reason is because they have spent so much effort over the years in pushing less severe and more dubious instances of sex where the consent is ambiguous or regretted AFTERWARDS that they are scared that their whole project could come falling down if sufficiently challenged. Hence the hysteria.</div>
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Also, its worth repeating that time and time again when it comes to the issue of various forms of 'attack' (e.g. threats) against women, the women themselves have often been unmasked as faking the attacks to gain attention etc. Also these feminists desperately WANT attacks on themselves. It fuels them and validates their whole philosophy. They crave being victims. </div>
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And that brings me on to another thing thats come to my attention: the emergence of the 'Social Justice Warrior'. This annoying breed essentially haunts the web looking to 'spread awareness' of some form or other of politically correct cause. Notice that they don't typically DO anything to help people. The environmental ones aren't out cleaning up rubbish, inventing more efficient solar panels, or de-toxifying lakes. They are just on the web telling everyone else how bad they are to the environment. Same for the ones who spread 'awareness' of rape etc. Now of course there is a place for waking people up, or pointing out arguments that they hadn't thought about, but these Social Justice Warriors seem usually to have little in the way of reasoned argument that they wish to communicate, and they just want to repeat the same mantras over and over. I think its more about them gaining attention for themselves. It seems like a very teenagery thing to me.</div>
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Lastly, something called Gamergate has come to my attention. I don't know all the tiny details of it, but I read up a bit about it. Theres also a brief summary here: </div>
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My take on it: the media are obsessed with making everything that involves women into a 'nasty evil men Vs poor innocent damsel in distress' story. In particular, they love using this tactic when they need to deflect attention (as in this case where they have been exposed for corruption). Similarly, there was recently an online scam whereby some company pretended to be hackers who were going to release naked photos of Emma Watson soon after she had given a feminist speech at the UN. The usual feminist newspaper commentators of course had a field day with this and didn't appear to do even the most basic journalistic fact-checking but instead rushed-in to claim this as an example of every form of female victimisation imaginable. Interestingly, even when the story was exposed as a scam (something which the journalists themselves should have done) some of the papers, like The Telegraph, STILL keep their stories up, and The Guardian acknowledged that it was a scam but still kept up the line that it was evidence of how feminists are intimidated (without even considering that Watson may never have taken naked photos, and hence would have known the whole thing was a scam). Just think about what this says about journalists from the 'big' papers these days. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-28562552696259676302014-06-11T15:56:00.000+00:002014-06-11T15:56:08.171+00:00Some of the worst Twitter trolls are women, not men<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Twitter:</b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10887389/Some-of-the-worst-Twitter-trolls-are-women-not-men.html" target="_blank">the prevailing press rhetoric defined "trolls" as male Twitter users, overtly threatening sexual assault. So, when my trolls came, in the form of female users being relentlessly manipulative and snide, I was completely unprepared.</a></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-86138977922557724132014-06-11T15:36:00.000+00:002014-06-11T15:36:12.302+00:00Drunk girls attack homeless man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heres something for the feminists and 'patriarchy' conspiracy theorists to ignore:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, if a group of men had done this to a woman, it would be called a serious violent sexual assault.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine if a group of drunk men had attacked and torn the clothes off a woman in the streets...</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be headline BBC news for a month and the subject of endless "analysis" and investigations into "misogyny" on BBC Radio 4. The victim would write a book and it'd be Book of the Week (repeated regularly every 6 months). There would also be an "in-depth" documentary and a Classic Serial in six parts about it all. Then, for years afterwards, she'd be asked for her opinion on the price of plums, whether string is as good as it used to be, whether cats are better than elephants and other endless drivel. Perhaps it's just as well we've been spared, eh?</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><br /><br /></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-76753589445023655232014-04-30T07:08:00.001+00:002014-04-30T07:08:52.173+00:00Is the Everyday Sexism Project even reliable?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Something called the 'Everyday Sexism Project' has become popular online and been turned into a book. Its a place for women to report examples of sexist comments said to them or sexist actions taken against them. There have been thousands of submissions, and feminists are pointing to it as evidence that women face a daily barrage of sexist abuse.<br />
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Yet how do we know how many of these claims are even true? Or how many are exaggerated?<br />
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A site like this is just a lightning rod for angry feminists. And as we've seen time and time again, they will stretch the truth, lie or do whatever it takes to further their cause. So who is to say that feminist activists aren't flooding onto that site and posting fictional claims?<br />
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The project really doesn't feel true to me. In particular, I strongly doubt that (at least here in London and the South East) women are constantly having men shout at them on the street. I NEVER hear this. If it were happening constantly I'm sure I would witness it. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-2231342702113619812014-04-03T14:05:00.000+00:002014-04-03T14:05:33.228+00:00Sexist app 'Lulu' taken offline in Brazil after lawsuit by male activist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/features/report/8215/lulu-taken-offline-in-brazil-after-user-backlash/" target="_blank">Lulu taken offline in Brazil after user backlash</a><br />
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A victory for Brazilians, men, and everyone who respects the notion of privacy.<br />
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FYI Lulu was previously known as (and written about on here) Luluvise.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-20018743984377240812014-03-30T08:42:00.002+00:002014-03-30T08:42:47.256+00:002 Links<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Brian Sewell (homosexual art critic): <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10730495/Brian-Sewell-Why-Im-no-convert-to-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank">"Why I'm no convert to gay marriage" </a><br />
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The original headline for <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591906/Thatll-teach-not-legless-Japanese-man-wakes-railway-tracks-leg-chopped-boozy.html" target="_blank">THIS</a> article about a drunk Japanese man having his leg severed by a train was 'That'll teach him not to get legless'. The comments from readers quickly pointed out how disgusting this cheap joke was and the headline is now changed. People power in action. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-3854803760125312792014-02-10T08:22:00.001+00:002014-02-10T08:22:38.342+00:00The Telegraph thinks its 'wonderful' that boys are being left behind at uni<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anyway, Mzzz Fairly (she certainly doesn't write fairly) certainly doesn't look like a spring chicken, so she might want to re-consider her celebration of the collapse of motivation amongst young men (again, accepting for the time being that this is real). She may be able to afford to take a snooty attitude towards carpenters but when she's truly old and in need of a pension, good health care, perhaps some nursing care, and certainly preferring a stable society around her, she might want to re-think her stance on the collapse of male motivation. After all, who still provides the lion's share of tax? Do you really want a ghetto Britain with vast swathes of young men out of work, with no motivation, not paying their taxes (and, indeed, leeching off the welfare state) and spending their days drinking and playing pool? Does she really celebrate all the consequences of this, not least of which may be increased mental health issues and yet higher suicide rates amongst young men?</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-973055236132583712014-01-05T16:10:00.000+00:002014-01-05T16:10:21.075+00:00White on black<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A quick plea to anyone who runs a website: please don't use white text on a black background, its harder to read than black on white. I think theres even some evidence to back this up. But just trust me: its a real pain in the backside to read and looks ugly. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-49698327313666532272014-01-02T09:55:00.001+00:002014-01-02T09:55:22.571+00:00Having more female doctors is hurting the NHS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Because female doctors CHOOSE to work in general practice and then retire early, it is necessary to train two female doctors to ensure you have covered the position that one would cover through a normal career. It costs £500,000 to train a doctor. The British taxpayer is paying a heavy price for this trend towards more female doctors. <div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-50464284195855617882013-12-14T09:56:00.002+00:002013-12-14T09:56:25.506+00:00Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt: apologists for paedophiles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The two left wing feminist politicians were allied to an organisation that advocated lowering the sexual age of consent to four: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523526/How-Labour-Deputy-Harriet-Harman-shadow-minister-husband-Health-Secretary-Patricia-Hewitt-linked-group-lobbying-right-sex-children.html" target="_blank">article</a>. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-20787831867169468652013-11-19T15:11:00.003+00:002013-11-19T15:11:27.118+00:00International men's day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10456888/Do-we-really-need-an-International-Mens-Day.html" target="_blank">Today is international men's day</a><br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.71875px;">We know that men in the UK are still dying four years sooner than women, on average; that 12 men each day take their own lives; that 90% of rough sleepers are men; that 95% of the prison population is male; that seven out of ten murder victims are male; that girls are outperforming boys at every stage of education; that women are a third more likely to go to university than men; that young men account for 70% of long-term youth unemployment; that male graduates are 50% more likely to be unemployed; that men in their twenties are earning less than their female peers; that 96% of people who die at work are male and that men accounted for 84% of suicides linked to the recession."</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-72870916583372854202013-08-20T18:58:00.000+00:002013-08-20T18:58:41.071+00:00Change of site name <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've decided to change the name of my site from CoolToolsForMen to Men's Memes.<br />
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Why?<br /><br />Basically because the site grew away from my original intention for it, and the name no longer made sense. I've been trying to think of a better name for a few weeks now and I've settled on Men's Memes.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-79328373536855299982013-08-17T12:20:00.004+00:002013-08-17T12:20:57.801+00:00Celebrity paedophiles and Operation Yewtree<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last autumn in the UK a TV documentary was aired containing a number of allegations that a recently deceased (2011) famous DJ and TV presenter, Jimmy Savile, had sexually abused a number of girls over the decades. The allegations were particularly shocking because he had not only been a household name here, but had worked extensively with children, teenagers, hospital patients and prison inmates (through his media work but also volunteer work in hospitals and prisons). On the other hand the allegations weren’t surprising to many, not only because rumours had circled for years that he was ‘not quite right’ but because some people had been saying that Savile was part of a wider network of elite child-abusers, who were managing to get away with their abuse thanks to the veil of fame (i.e. the public – until recently – just couldn’t contemplate that a famous person could be a child-abuser) and having friends in powerful places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It’s plausible that elite powerful people are often engaged in child abuse.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t really have much to say about this theory that those in the elite networks of power are frequently involved in abusing young people and children, other than I think it has a certain plausibility. There are two possible motivations. Firstly that when people get into positions of power (e.g. wealth, fame and political connections) their appetites for ordinary sexual pleasure get jaded quickly, as they have access to any number of sexual experiences that they could desire (particularly during the pre-AIDS permissive ‘60s and ‘70s) and they have to move on to more extreme and forbidden experiences in order to get the same kick of excitement. That many people who climb to the tops of the trees of power may also be somewhat sociopathic only lends to the plausibility of this, as they perhaps don’t care at all if they hurt or traumatise people in search of pleasure. Secondly, there is a theory that paedophilic abuse may be used as a mechanism of control by those in the structures of political power. In other words, that it’s a sort of honey trap, of the sort that we know the intelligence agencies have used before. If you are within the elite power structures and you can lead some rising political or media star into abusing a young person, and get evidence of it, you have a very powerful grip of control over them in terms of potential blackmail. Child abuse is one of the very few things that can now end, for example, a politicians career (exposure of lying, financial skulduggery, marital infidelity etc are no longer necessarily career-destroyers). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Examining the possibility of elite child-abuse should not ignite hysteria about men in general</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having said all that, I have no conclusive evidence that this is going on, but I think its well worth researching. However, equally, even if this is going on, I see it as a phenomenon of a tiny elite, and should NOT fuel a paedophile hysteria amongst the general population. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Returning to the case of Jimmy Savile: after the TV documentary was broadcast, hundreds of further witnesses came forward to the police alleging that they had been abused by him, usually when they where children or teenagers, some of them boys. At the same time the police began to get allegations that other famous male celebrities had engaged in various forms of sexual abuse of young people. They formed an investigation called ‘Operation Yewtree’ to examine these allegations. I don’t have the greatest faith that the police are going to act in the most professional, objective and trustworthy manner in investigating such claims. On the one hand, their politically correct indoctrination means that they are primed to see abuse everywhere. On the other hand if they genuinely uncovered evidence of abuse amongst those in positions of REAL power (e.g. politics, royalty) I’m sure they would have their arms twisted to ignore it and instead concentrate the public’s attention on male celebrities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, the main point I want to make in this piece is that these abuse allegations are getting the public confused about what way or may not be going on. We need to stop and think very clearly and rationally about abuse allegations and draw some clear lines between categories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We need to make some rational distinctions between accusations and proven guilt, between paedophilia and pederasty</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly, we should obviously be cognizant of the right of everyone to be considered innocent until proven guilty. Some famous men are having their reputations dragged through the mud by the media before their case has even been brought to court. This is deeply unfair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly, I think we need to distinguish between abuse which is genuinely paedophilic (i.e. abusing those who have not yet reached puberty, or are only in the very early stages of it) from that which is pederastic (i.e. having sexual relations with those who are teenagers/have gone through puberty). The former is surely worse than the later, and we shouldn’t let the more hysterical voices on this subject forbid us from making this distinction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sexy young women are forgiven for sex-crimes in a way that men aren’t</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirdly, I think we need to realise that most people are somewhat irrationally over-sensitive to allegations of abuse against middle-aged to older men. Its been noticed by many that women, particularly younger and good-looking women, seem to get a very easy-ride by the public when it comes to allegations of child/young-person abuse. If a sexy young teacher is caught having sexual relations with an under-the-legal-age boy, people treat it as forgivable, a joke or even something desirable. If the exact same situation occurred with a man, particularly one who was middle-aged and viewed as ‘un-sexy’, he would be aggressively condemned (e.g. the tabloids would do their best to whip-up a storm of indignation over it, and would publish comments suggesting that he should be violently punished). I think that when people are making up their own minds about how bad they think a particular crime is, their emotions play a big role. In other words they search their feelings about it, and the more disgust they feel, the worse they assume the crime is, and vice versa. This leads people to unfairly let sexy young women abusers off the hook, whilst condemning older male abusers irrationally harshly. Most people don’t think thinking of older men as having sexual feelings, and perhaps many feel disgust at the very idea. This disgust then gets conflated with people’s assessments of how bad they feel any potential ‘sexual abuse’ crime is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>People conflate their disgust with older-male sexuality with their emotional assessment of how bad a sex crime is.</b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-21601964046125032592013-08-16T10:55:00.000+00:002013-08-16T10:56:19.760+00:00The Telegraph thinks it’s amusing to murder your husband<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This week the Telegraph published an article by Celia Walden about a supposed new trend of novels for women that deal with women who kill their husbands (See <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10237760/Why-do-all-my-friends-want-to-murder-their-husbands.html" target="_blank">here</a>). The article was treating the subject in a humorous way. There’s obviously nothing necessarily bad about using murder in a novel, even a light, frothy one. After all, many of us love Agatha Christie. And nothing necessarily wrong with treating murder as a subject for black humour; Hitchcock used to do it wonderfully. However, there’s something particularly nasty and insidious about this Telegraph article.<br />
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Firstly, with thousands of books published yearly, its dubious to call a handful of books a ‘trend’. Like the invented quote, it’s the hack-journalist’s stock trick for creating an excuse for projecting one of their favoured subjects onto society, and then acting like they are writing about other people when they are probably just writing about what’s going on in their own mind. In fact, whenever you read about some new ‘trend’ in today’s papers, it’s almost certainly the creation of a journalist or public relations person in order to influence public opinion in a certain way. Rather than be suckered-in to believe<br />
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Secondly, the article quickly moves from describing this supposed trend to using nasty, mocking language to imply that there is a justification for wanting to murder your husband. For example:<br />
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“…imagining how good it would feel …to bludgeon the now balding, paunch-prone, crossword-addicted man they married to death.”<br />
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“It’s about men’s consistent failure to live up to our expectations.”<br />
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“They get murdered because they’ve become so ineffectual. And that’s something we can all relate to.”<br />
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“Its not as though they are needed these days is it?”<br />
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Truly nasty stuff. Celia Walden is clearly trying to get her readers thinking along the lines of ‘they deserve it’. Even if this doesn’t directly lead wives to kill their husbands (although who is to say that it might not tip one woman over the edge into thinking it was justified) it will clearly lead to more women viewing men with contempt and disgust. It is dehumanising to men.<br />
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Lastly, the hypocrisy of the Telegraph in publishing this absolutely stinks. These women are (a) aware of the potential influence of media in inciting violence against a particular group and (b) the first to try their best to destroy a man’s career if he dared say anything even 10% as nasty as this about women. Just contemplate their hypocrisy and arrogance for a moment: they understand its bad to publish hateful material directed at a particular group, yet will do so, whilst condemning others who do it. What can we deduce from this? It seems that they don’t believe in moral principles that apply to everyone, they are only out to empower themselves and men can be damned.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-79661135524756770032013-08-15T21:01:00.000+00:002013-08-15T21:46:32.486+00:00Lad's mags, feminist campaigns, modesty covers and the Co-Op<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Do the supermarkets care about children?<br />
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I ask because this has been one of the main reasons that they have recently decided to censor or ban lad's mags. These magazines, with sexy covers of bikini-clad babes, predictably got the feminist pressure groups frothing at the mouth with indignation. They started to lobby the supermarkets to cover them up. Some have moved them to the top shelves, and placed them behind boards. This week one magazine (Nuts) refused even more draconian demands from the Co-Op chain to put their magazines in modesty bags, which cover up the front cover. Co-Op will now ban Nuts from its stores.<br />
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The rational behind these measures was supposedly that its bad for children to see sexual images (women in bikinis/in provocative poses etc).<br />
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Yet, hypocritically these supermarkets don't seem to care at all about:<br />
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(1) Women's magazines which show women in bikinis on their covers<br />
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(2) Magazines for women and gay men which feature images of naked or semi-naked men on their covers, with often sexual headlines.<br />
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(3) Trashy celebrity/gossip magazines (of which the supermarkets stock MANY more than the lads mags) which have garish covers filled with headlines about abuse, incest and sex, not to mention endlessly mocking people in the public eye for their weight.<br />
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If lads mags are so bad for children, the supermarkets must also believe that the women's and gay's magazines are equally harmful, yet they do nothing to censor them.<br />
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Why?<br />
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In other words, it doesn't look like 'protecting children' was the reason for the censorship of the lads mags.<br />
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Also, if supermarkets were so keen on the welfare of children why do they sell so many processed and highly sugared foods aimed at children which are undoubtedly harming their young bodies?<br />
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Interestingly, this week I went into one of Co-Op's most prominent stores, on the Strand in London, and the only magazine aimed at men at all was 'Attitude', the gay men's magazine, which had a cover image of a half-naked man, and boasted of a feature on 'the 100 sexiest men'.<br />
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Given Co-Op's aggressive stance on censoring sexual images and headlines, was this magazine on the top shelf?<br />
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Was it hidden behind a board?<br />
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No.<br />
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In a modesty cover?<br />
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It was prominently positioned on a special display with the title 'We recommend'.<br />
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Clearly Co-Op doesn't care at all about children seeing sexualised images and headlines, they just seem to care about alienating straight men.<br />
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I have nothing against gay men (I have gay male friends and colleagues) but I find Co-Op's hypocrisy rather disgusting. I don't even buy the lads mags, but I don't like the fact that they display so many trashy magazines which clearly are just exploiting concepts like abuse and incest for profit. I would not want children to see this kind of material. Also, why is it that the store I went into stocked tens of magazines aimed at women and not one aimed at me, as a man? </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-7328073589919402942013-08-15T20:16:00.002+00:002013-08-15T20:16:46.596+00:00Turning boys into 'sex objects' is bad for them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Teenage boys and young men are increasingly portrayed by the media as sex objects. Examples abound of boys and younger men from the worlds of sport, film and music being photographed as though they were soft porn stars, and being talked about lecherously on social media sites. There has been a definite shift in the way that young men are portrayed or need to portray themselves if they want to be successful today. If the Beatles were starting their careers today, they would probably need to endlessly pose topless with their underwear on display if they wanted media and social networking attention. <br />
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Some of this is, no doubt, being driven by the more crowded media landscape. An explosion of TV channels and websites means it’s harder to get a large audience for your TV show, movie or music than it used to be, and sex sells. However, there are undoubtedly other forces driving this too, amongst which the strongest are probably the presence of gay men in the media industries, and the prevalence of feminist thinking amongst the career women in the media seeing it as ‘evening the score’ to portray boys in a way that girls and women are often portrayed.<br />
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The media are doing whatever will make them lots of money, but the effect is to both confuse young men, make them feel miserable, or/and lead them down a path that could waste a lot of their time and energy. For whilst boys are under increasing pressure to be physically attractive, when it comes to what will help them get a girlfriend or be more valued by the opposite sex, there hasn’t been so much of a shift. Whilst girls are increasingly vocal about apparently appreciating good-looking boys, they haven’t dropped all their other requirements for what they find attractive. Most young females have long and demanding lists of requirements that need to be met before they’ll find a young man attractive, and most are to do with his popularity or some form of ‘dominance’ (either physical or intellectual). Equally, there tends to be a lot less consensus amongst females over whether any particular male is attractive. Where virtually all males will agree on the attractiveness of a female model (for example), women will often let little details spoil their appreciation of him.<br />
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“Yes I can see he’s good looking, but have you seen his shoes? I could never be attracted to a man with shoes like that!”<br />
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“Oh I can’t find him attractive at all, he’s way too confident for my liking.’<br />
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“I can’t find him attractive at all, he’s just not confident enough for my liking.”<br />
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And on and on.<br />
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Often boys and men get excited by the idea of women treating men as sex objects as they think it could offer them an easy and direct solution to getting women to find them attractive. However, if they think this they are chumps. Increasing media attention on male attractiveness will only RAISE the bar for what is deemed attractive to women, not lower it. In other words, an increased emphasis on attractiveness of boys and young men will make the average boy LESS attractive, not MORE.<br />
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<b><i>An increased emphasis on attractiveness of boys and young men will make the average boy LESS attractive, not MORE.</i></b></h3>
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To understand why, you need to look at the differences between what heterosexual boys/men and girls/women find attractive. Girls, as soon as they reach puberty, have always, throughout history, been viewed as more ‘valuable’ than boys. From an evolutionary standpoint it’s a fact that a population can reproduce successfully even if only a minority of the men are impregnating the majority of the females. Boys and men are thus under harsher competition to prove themselves to be attractive to women. Both sexes tend to arrange men on a hierarchy of value, with those at the top being allowed to (in theory) access many women, whilst those at the bottom are denied access at all. The important thing to note is that this hierarchy is both male-only (women are not subject to it), and largely NOT driven by attractiveness, but by other traits which can be summarised under the quality of dominance or power (this could be wealth, popularity, or physical strength/aggressiveness). To see that this is true, consider the fact that a large proportion – perhaps a majority – of girls and women are deemed physically attractive but only tiny minority of boys and men are. To be attractive, all most women have to do is avoid getting fat, and groom themselves well and they will start to pull-in the opposite sex. For a man to accomplish the same trick, he would not only have to be physically attractive, but also score high on the ‘power-hierarchy’. Once you understand this, you can see that only a minority of boys/men will ever be considered attractive.<br />
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<b><i>A large proportion of girls and women are deemed physically attractive but only tiny minority of boys and men are.</i></b></h3>
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Another way to see this in action is to look at the phenomenon of teenage bands and singers. Thousands, sometimes millions, of teenage girls will fixate on only one or several boy singers in a way that boys don’t with female singers. Boys may find female singers sexy, and may even put their posters up on their walls or fantasise about them, but they don’t obsessively focus in the way that girls do. You don’t get groups of thousands of boys waiting for hours to catch a glimpse of a female singer, crying, screaming and even feinting. To put it simply, the male fantasy is for a female to possess and call their own, the female fantasy is to be possessed by the male that all the other females want.<br />
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For women its more important that they look good if they want to attract men, but the bar for attractiveness is lower. For men, attractiveness is a less important part of the mix, but the bar is a lot higher. A physically attractive woman will get a lot more ‘bang for her buck’ just out of her attractiveness than a man will ever do from his.<br />
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<b><i>Its not only harder for a boy/man to be deemed physically attractive, its also less important to his overall attractiveness. </i></b></h3>
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Not only is it a less important part of the mix for boys and men, but its much harder to achieve, requiring a lot more time and energy. All the time I see women being called attractive just because they are (a) not fat, and (b) have simply carefully arranged their hair and make-up to be sexually attractive to men. Not only do men not have the artificial ‘prop’ of make-up, but the ideal physical ‘look’ of low-fat/high muscle is a lot harder to achieve than the female equivalent of merely low-fat. It requires many more hours in the gym, it requires a special high-protein diet and a great degree of dedication over time. The highly muscular look that is now evident across the media as the ideal male appearance is actually extremely unnatural and just as dangerous as the ‘size zero’ stick-thin model look that the fashion industry promotes amongst women. As an example, the actor Hugh Jackman, who has to appear highly muscular for the Wolverine movies, was recently quoted as saying he was worried the training and diet would give him a heart attack, so extreme, unnatural and intense it is in order to achieve this look.<br />
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Do we really want our young men to be tricked by the media into diverting their finite time and energy into this, in a futile quest to feel valued? How many boys are diverted away from studying or developing other important parts of their lives by spending endless hours and energy in the gym? Moreover, they are being misled about this by a small and cynical group of feminist-indoctrinated media controllers who simply wish to ‘even the score’.<br />
This is an important issue as it is increasing the levels of misery amongst young men. Not only is suicide significantly higher amongst young men than young women, but levels of eating disorders are rising amongst young men. Obsession with personal appearance is a recipe for misery at the best of times, but when combined with the vulnerability of the teenage years, and the fact that pursuing the low-fat/high muscle look will require a significant investment for a boy, I believe that the media pushing this trend are doing a lot of harm.<br />
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Boys are likely more sexually and socially vulnerable than are girls of the same age. Female journalists love to boast of how teenage girls are typically more emotionally mature than boys of the same age, yet curiously they are increasingly predatory and lewd about such boys. If they think that teen boys are lagging a few years behind girls in emotional development, then when they sexualise a 16 year old boy, its more akin to sexualising a 13 year old girl. The media are doing this all the time to boys and it’s bordering on paedophilic.<br />
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The media are extremely hypocritical about this issue. The tabloids will write articles (rightly) condemning paedophiles, but then feature endless photos of barely legal teenage boys in various states of undress. Feminist journalists, bloggers and twitter users will aggressively condemn treating young girls as sex objects, but then do exactly the same to young boys. If they are confronted on their hypocrisy they typically brush it off.<br />
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Such journalists and social networkers are contributing to an atmosphere that is harmful to young boys only just out of childhood. They are potentially making paedophilia more likely. They are probably increasing the prevalence of eating disorders and steroid abuse. Lastly, ironically, I'm sure women themselves won't like it when their sons or partners have become self-obsessed, vain, spend more time in the gym than with them or on personality-enriching hobbies, because that will be the end result.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-27525124449932388102013-08-03T19:48:00.003+00:002013-08-03T19:48:45.848+00:00Human resources have absolute power over male workers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-24625817564458146072013-05-04T18:41:00.001+00:002013-05-04T18:41:11.794+00:00An irony<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today in the men's changing rooms at my local swimming pool I looked up to see this poster:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Yeah the bad boys are always catching my eye</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I said the bad boys are always spinning my mind</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Even though I know they’re no good for me</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">It’s the risk I take for the chemistry</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">With the bad boys always catching my eye</span></i></span></div>
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How symbolic of whats going on in our societies at the moment: women are now given complete licence to do whatever they want, to make whatever choices they like, and not be blamed for the consequences. In fact, even worse, a large proportion of today's young women will reward the 'bad boys' with their attention and respect, yet blame the average man for the bad men's behaviour. Which is why even when I'm changing at the swimming pool I simultaneously have to see this ridiculous poster at the same time as the music rubs it in that women will find bad men more desirable than me. Not in spite of their lack of morals, but because of it.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-51762957605848023432013-01-06T08:36:00.000+00:002013-01-06T08:39:54.049+00:00Feminism & the destruction of the family<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As I've said a million times, feminism's aim from the very beginning was the destruction of the nuclear family, which it deemed to represent 'patriarchal oppression of women'. </div>
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The damage done by these arrogant and evil people is truly beyond measure. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-41662284850252519782013-01-05T19:41:00.003+00:002013-01-05T19:41:48.659+00:00What are you doing to support the Patriarchy? ;-)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I found this on Reddit:<br />
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In response to a post titled "So how have you been contributing to the Patriarchy?"<br />
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In the city on business. About to enter a building when a woman walks up behind me. A grin spreads across my face as I step back and hold the door open for her.<br />
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I see her tremble and tears form in her eyes.<br />
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I say to her "Ladies first"<br />
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She is visibly shaking, tears running down her face, as she walks through the door. The power I feel as I oppress another female courses through my veins. My penis thrashes in my trousers. Nearby, men all start applauding.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-54307825028749211452013-01-05T14:23:00.002+00:002013-01-05T14:23:42.575+00:00Interesting reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Brain-mapping: </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2251101/The-astonishing-maps-reveal-brain-organises-see.html" target="_blank">The astonishing maps that reveal how our brain organises everything we see</a></div>
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Futuristic art: <a href="http://m.io9.com/5971898/absolutely-stunning-concept-art-of-paris-2084/gallery/1" target="_blank">Stunning concept art of Paris in 2084</a></div>
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Brain science: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-12/ki-ant121912.php" target="_blank">A new type of nerve cell found in the brain</a></div>
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Past predictions: <a href="http://www.writersofthefuture.com/time-capsule-predictions" target="_blank">Predictions about 2012 made in 1987!</a></div>
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Men's rights: <a href="http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2940-male-stereotypes-advertisements.html" target="_blank">Male advertising stereotypes are backfiring</a></div>
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Is reality a simulation?: <a href="http://news.techeye.net/science/scientists-plan-test-to-see-if-the-entire-universe-is-a-simulation-created-by-futuristic-supercomputers" target="_blank">Scientists plan to test if the entire universe is a simulation created by futuristic supercomputers</a></div>
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Habits: <a href="http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/12/03/20-good-habits-to-start-in-your-20s/" target="_blank">20 good habits to start in your 20s</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-59920412201784560572012-12-28T16:36:00.002+00:002012-12-28T16:36:57.291+00:00Please say hello!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'd really like to get to know my readers better, so please feel free to add a comment below telling me, perhaps, a little about yourself, what brought you to this blog, if its your first visit here or you visit regularly? If it is your first visit, will you come back? What would you like to see more/less of? Just any comments you like that will enable me to get a better feel for who you are! Also, feel free to ask me questions if you like.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-27454619315260716822012-12-28T16:23:00.002+00:002012-12-28T16:24:32.997+00:00Say goodbye to your country<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.angryharry.com/Say-Goodbye-To-Your-Country.htm" target="_blank">Say goodbye to your country, By Angry Harry</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"<span style="background-color: white;">The ultimate aim is one world government - something that will almost certainly lead to wholesale misery right across the planet"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">There are a number of forces pushing in the direction of (1) a weakening of the Western nations and their culture, and (2) a consolidation of power right across the globe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I genuinely fear a global government as I think it would inevitably head towards the worst totalitarian regime imaginable. Indeed, once the global elite (top politicians, billionaires, those in control of the banks, etc) have control over the masses, I think we'd probably end up akin to cattle in a farm. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">There is a labyrinth of 'conspiracy theory' type material online on this subject, which you can get lost in. Its a bland comment, but I would judge that some of it is basically correct, but a lot of it isn't. What I would advice, rather, is a general vigilance, not to believe things at face value, especially information emanating from the mass media and governments. What most people don't realise is that the mass media is awash with information put out by corporations and organisations that have specific political agendas. Equally, due to financial pressures, even the major newspapers no longer seem to support investigative journalism as strongly as they did in the past. This is a weakening of a fail-safe mechanism that helped keep various powerful forces in check. All the more reason for us to become more vigilant and more enquiring as to what is happening in our countries. </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26321696.post-67161514370952157732012-12-24T09:48:00.000+00:002012-12-28T16:33:28.121+00:00The weakening of Britain <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/12/a-rough-guide-to-2112-the-abolition-of-britain-complete.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"For the last 60 years or so, we have lived in a nation that was more or less familiar to anyone who had grown up in the pre-war Britain of 1939. Even the devastation of conflict had not transformed it out of recognition.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/12/a-rough-guide-to-2112-the-abolition-of-britain-complete.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">People behaved, thought, worked, laughed and enjoyed themselves much as they had done for decades. They lived in the same sorts of families in the same kind of houses. Their children went to the same kinds of schools.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/12/a-rough-guide-to-2112-the-abolition-of-britain-complete.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And they had grown up in a land which was still identifiably the same as their grandparents had known. And so it went back for centuries. As recently as 1949, the prices of most goods were roughly the same, and expressed in the same money, as the prices of 1649.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/12/a-rough-guide-to-2112-the-abolition-of-britain-complete.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A short-distance time-traveller between 1912 and 2012 might be perplexed and astonished, but he would not be lost.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/12/a-rough-guide-to-2112-the-abolition-of-britain-complete.html" target="_blank">That period is now coming to an end. I suspect that anyone in Britain, travelling between 2012 and 2112 would be unable to believe that he was in the same place."</a> Peter Hitchens</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For whatever reason (and there are many obvious ones) and whoever is behind it (and there are many obvious candidates) there seems to be a many forces acting to weaken our nation, its wealth, institutions, private and family life, national security, civil liberties and so on. Feminism (one of the subjects I've addressed most frequently in this blog) is just one weapon thats been and is being used towards this aim. Its a particularly potent one as it achieves multiple effects that these people desire: it brings down labour costs by widening the available workforce, it helps destroy the family and therefore makes the Government more powerful and helps multi-national corporations sell more white goods, it gives the state more control and powers over our children and so on. It really is astonishing, once you wake up to the true way feminism is used, how many </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px;">deleterious</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> effects it has. However, it is only one </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px;">piece</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of the jigsaw. We need to become more aware of the bigger picture. I expect to be writing more on this in 2013. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(incidentally, I know that the majority of my readers are in the United States, and there are also many readers in the other European countries and the commonwealth, but these trends of weakening of national security and infrastructure are also happening in your countries). </span></span></div>
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