Progress

LL commented at VP concerning how men's behavior has changed with immigration and women's sexual liberation:

My mother who was young in the 70's told me once that one time when she was out with her friends, some guy blatantly suggested her an one night stand. Not even harassment, just a 70's free-love-pick up line. She told this to me like it was something shocking.

Well, every time I go out here in 21st century London, I get harassed, grabbed and often groped. And I always go out with my husband, these things happen when he has to go to restroom and is gone for five minutes. And it's always Arab guys who do the harassment. Nothing works for those guys. When you say you are married, they answer "All white women cheat their husbands" or something like that.

If this is progress, I hate it.

If feminists think Western civilization is "Rape Culture", just wait until they discover what post-Christian culture is like. Outside of Western civilization, the a woman's right to choose will be reduced to the brothel or the burqah.

Sign the gamma up for girly

The power of the Gamma Delusion is such that the gamma will attempt to redefine any criticism, however objectively accurate, into a self-styled triumph for himself. We've seen John Scalzi attempt to do this with "rabbit", with "insect", and even with the term "gamma male" itself. Now, however, he has gone so far as to attempt to redefine "girly" and "lesser":

Now, no doubt the status-anxious dudebros will delight in my shocking admissions here, because they are silly little boys who apparently think that a man who can happily live with, and help raise, women who are better at various things than he is (including things they entirely erroneously suppose to be inherently masculine) must be therefore weak and inferior and girly. Two points here.

One, there’s the obvious point that in the Scalzi household “girly” means strong and smart and capable and better than decent with ranged weapons. All of which I would happily be. So yes sign me up for girly please.

Two, and to repeat, these sad, frantic lumps of manflesh are proclaiming that a man who is pleased to share his life with women who are strong and smart and capable, and who has no problem acknowledging when their skills are superior to his, is somehow actually lesser for it. This should tell you all you need to know about the intelligence and sensibleness of such a world view.

The Gamma's Gamma, John Scalzi, is attempting here to defend his public announcement that his own high school daughter is stronger than he is, for which he was much mocked by many men and women alike. And indeed, it tells you a great deal about the intelligence and sensibleness and even sanity of Scalzi's worldview that he would publicly insist that something LITERALLY lesser is not lesser at all.

There is no shame in women being strong or lifting weights. I have trained many women in how to lift; my wife has been lifting weights regularly as long as I have known her and she's more hardcore about it than I am.

Scalzi tries a little pivot when he insinuates that he is only being criticized because his critics have an intrinsic problem acknowledging when women's skills are superior. That isn't the case at all. No one would laugh at Scalzi if he admitted that his wife was better at knitting, or darts, or shooting, or accounting, and I, for one, have absolutely no problem believing that his daughter might be a better writer than he is. The bar is not exactly what one would call high.

What Scalzi is being derided for is being a weak, soft, and physically pathetic figure. And he is also being correctly scorned for his deluded gamma insistence that his embrace of his own effeminate weakness is not only a strength, but a strength that demonstrates his superiority to higher-status, more masculine men. Being insecure, the gamma male does not understand that for most men, status consciousness is not synonymous with status anxiety. His various accusations are not only false, they are observably ridiculous.

In a gym in which I worked out for many years, there was a sign in the weight room that many found inspirational.

This room is for the weak, that they may become strong.
This room is for the strong, that they may learn humility.

This message resounded with the strong and the weak alike because it is natural for the strong to take pride in their strength and to harbor contempt for the weak. The iron teaches that every man has his limits, and that there is always someone else who is stronger. It is natural for the weak to seek to become strong. The iron helps them do that. What is twisted, unnatural, and contemptible is for the weak to take pride in their lack of strength, to celebrate their weakness, and insist that the strong should, rather than despising their weakness, aspire to it. The iron can do nothing for such creatures.

Now, I love the iron. I have a long and enduring personal relationship with it. The iron transformed a 135-pound spaghetti-armed weakling into a 180-pound full-contact fighter with 17-inch guns. I love the iron even when it turns on me and I can't lift heavy while my various middle-aged training injuries are slowly healing. I think everyone of every age, male and female alike, would benefit greatly from lifting free weights on a regular basis. And, having lifted weights with hundreds of men and women on three continents over the years, I can say with authority that you will find nothing in any gym, male or female, more contemptible than a girly gamma male who is proud to proclaim that he cannot lift as much as a teenage girl.

One can't honestly call John Scalzi a lesser man for his admissions and pretensions, because that would be to give him too much credit. He is no man at all, he is a revolting low-status parody of one. Sign him up for "girly" indeed.

Attention uber alles

The tears of her children are no match for a mother's hamster:

My children hate me going to work. So why do I do it (apart from the dosh)... Like it or not, we mothers – working, or unpaid-at-home – are still carrying the practical and emotional burden of our children’s lives. The killer fact is: they bloody well love us for it. And while it makes them happy, we’ll keep on hugging, listening, playing, reading, talking, over-seeing homework, cooking, feeding and even pushing the odd swing. All we can hope is that by the time they’re adults, they won’t remember how often we went to work and they’ll be proud of their well-rounded mothers with interesting things to chat about. In the absence of anything better, that’s what we have to keep telling ourselves.

This is pure solipsism, as the woman assigns to her young children her own values. Setting aside the foolish notion that working in an office makes a woman "well-rounded" or gives her "interesting things to chat about" - mordant laugh - what children give even a fractional quantum of a damn about those things.

Can you imagine if a father was foolish enough to try to justify depriving his children of money in the hopes that they'll be proud of how attractive his mistress is? That is how ridiculously stupid it sounds.

Given that she's quite attractive, my guess is that she likes to play dress-up and flirt with the executives at the office. Being an attention whore, she's simply not willing to give up the attention for anything as tediously demanding as her own children.

UPDATE: Actually, it's much worse than that. She's an outright fame whore.

Thug hunger

There was an episode of Castle when Kate Beckett, forced to investigate the whereabouts of a Game-savvy player, discovers the extent of his conquests. "I weep for my gender," she comments in despair. One wonders what she would have made of this romantic drama:

British mother abandons her three children to marry Texas violent prisoner she met online after becoming 'impressed with his honesty'. Jennifer Butler is leaving her three children in UK to marry American prisoner. Christoper Mosier will be released on parole in September after serving five-years of a 15-year sentence for drug convictions. Butler met Mosier online in 2011 and they became penpals. First traveled to see him in October and Mosier proposed using a piece of grey string as a ring. Is leaving her three children - all younger than 10 - with their father.

Here is the punchline: "I am devoted to my children but they deserve a happy mum too." Actually, leaving your children to chase a violent felon is almost the exact opposite of devotion to your children.

Judging by the appearance of her children, I'm going to guess that she just couldn't stand her herbish husband any longer and started Alpha-chasing online.

"The single mother started writing to Mosier in July after she found his profile on the website, writeaprisoner.com, which unites would be pen-pals to inmates online."

Writeaprisoner.com is like crack for women craving Alpha.

'I was really intrigued by his profile. It was different to the rest. Most of the guys were posing with their tops off. But his was articulate and he was open about his crime.'

Mm-hmm.... Try that next time, my dear Deltas and Gammas. Be honest and open about your crimes. Preferably with your top off.

Cooption

This says it all.

Miss MRA @MraMiss
Advocating for the rights of men and women!

One major distinction I have noticed between the Pickup Artist community and the Men's Rights activists is that the latter tend to be of lower socio-sexual status and less aware of Game. They tend to be enthusiastic about female involvement rather than wary. So, rather than simply accepting women of sympathetic views as allies while keeping them at arms length as the Game community does, the MRAs appear to welcome them as members and even spokeswomen.

This, I strongly suspect, is a major strategic mistake. Women are very, very adept at transforming organizations and movements into mere mechanisms serving the Female Imperative. This can be seen in the history of everything from church denominations to the American voting franchise.

It will not take long for "advocating for the rights of men and women!" to transform into yet another form of women's rights advocacy. It is one thing to welcome a friendly passenger to the back seat, another to hand them the keys and trust that they both know, and want to go, where you were intending to drive.

No truth for you!

It's hardly shocking that researchers, physicians, genetic counselors and ethicists are biased towards denying men the information that their children might not actually be their own. After all, as we know, the Female Imperative can justify just about anything that keeps resources flowing from men towards women and children. But it is a little surprising that they would attempt to construct a model that would permit disclosure to parties other than the parents while STILL DENYING disclosure to the parents:

As more research is done on the human genome and more people seek genetic testing, researchers, physicians, genetic counselors and ethicists are struggling with the issues of how to present the new information to patients and whether certain findings should be presented at all.

A paper published Monday in the leading journal Pediatrics tackles a controversial discovery that can come out of genetic testing: when a child’s biological parent turns out to be someone else.

Whether that occurs through a switch at the hospital, a swap of embryos or sexual infidelity, genetic testing can bring such previously unknown facts to light. No matter the cause, it presents an ethical dilemma for medical professionals and one likely to become more common as genetic testing more more widespread. It has triggered a fierce and complex debate about whether parents — or those who might find out they are not true parents — have a right to know such information.

In the Pediatrics paper, ethicists at the University of Pennsylvania argue in favor of letting the parents of patients know that these facts can generally be found in the course of a test but will not be revealed to them.

“Because there isn’t a national consensus,” said co-author Autumn Fiester, director of education in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, “getting a proactive policy that could prevent the harms that are taking place seemed like an imperative to address.”

Without such a policy, Fiester said, after the tests are run, parents might be confronted with being told that there’s something they may need to know about their parentage.

“Dangle something like that in front of any human being, and they’re going to be coerced to have that information, even if they will rue the day when they said yes,” she said.

Current guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) advise speaking to patients about the issue of incidental findings but do not recommend disclosure or nondisclosure.....

While nondisclosure may be a good idea for avoiding family problems, there need to be some exceptions, said Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center and formerly of the University of Pennsylvania. For example, lab technicians may see DNA that leads them to suspect rape or incest. This type of finding might need to be reported because of the possibility of sexual abuse.

In other words, if a woman might have done something wrong: DO NOT DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION TO ANYONE! If a man might have done something wrong: DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION TO THE LEGAL AUTHORITIES AND COMMENCE A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION!

Now, what was that about "equality under the law" again?

It's just too easy

You know, I intellectually grasp the Gamma concept of embracing the insult, of owning the contempt, and attempting to make a positive out of a negative. It's a defense mechanism, and maybe it is even a necessary one for young men who somehow have to survive years of degradation and social humiliation.

But I don't understand it. I mean, seriously John Scalzi?

Saw the inside of a weight room for the first time since high school today. I took things very VERY slow.

Let it be known that my daughter can lift more than I do. Because she's on her school's weightlifting team, and also because she's awesome.

Watching "Tootsie" with Krissy. Seriously one of the best comedies ever.

Ye cats. You don't have to know anything at all about a man who will voluntarily make public statements like that to recognize that he was nowhere near the top or even the middle of the social hierarchy as a youth. If you're having any trouble grasping the difference between Delta and Gamma, this is it in a nutshell: the observable difference between the behavior of someone like John Scalzi and normal adult male behavior.

See that? Don't do that. Not if you have any interest in attractive female companionship. Much less sex of the variety that involves an attractive, willing, female partner who is not being monetarily compensated.

UPDATE:

ME: Some dudes online are making fun of me because you lift more than I can. DAUGHTER: That's because they're pathetic losers, dad. #point

Yes, no doubt THAT is PRECISELY why people are laughing at him. Just like the popular kids in high school didn't invite him to their parties because they were jealous. One has to say this for the man: when he finds himself in a hole, he is bloody well determined to dig his way out. Because China must be down there somewhere!