Link dump

How my mother’s fanatical views tore us apart by Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker. This is really heartrending.

The truth is that I very nearly missed out on becoming a mother – thanks to being brought up by a rabid feminist who thought motherhood was about the worst thing that could happen to a woman.

You see, my mum taught me that children enslave women. I grew up believing that children are millstones around your neck, and the idea that motherhood can make you blissfully happy is a complete fairytale.

In fact, having a child has been the most rewarding experience of my life. Far from ‘enslaving’ me, three-and-a-half-year-old Tenzin has opened my world. My only regret is that I discovered the joys of motherhood so late – I have been trying for a second child for two years, but so far with no luck.

I was raised to believe that women need men like a fish needs a bicycle. But I strongly feel children need two parents and the thought of raising Tenzin without my partner, Glen, 52, would be terrifying.

As the child of divorced parents, I know only too well the painful consequences of being brought up in those circumstances. Feminism has much to answer for denigrating men and encouraging women to seek independence whatever the cost to their families.

I was tempted to just post the whole thing. Read it.

Anecdotal observations on game, women and politics. Ferdinand Bardamu quotes me in this post.

Also, here’s an MRA blog I hadn’t seen before: Seasons of Tumult and Discord.

What’s Happening To Women’s Happiness?

First, since 1972, women’s overall level of happiness has dropped, both relative to where they were forty years ago, and relative to men. You find this drop in happiness in women regardless of whether they have kids, how many kids they have, how much money they make, how healthy they are, what job they hold, whether they are married, single or divorced, how old they are, or what race they are.

A fascinating post about the relative happiness of men and women can be read here.

Women are stupid and amoral: a double feature

It’s about a woman who chose to date a delinquent and, unsurprisingly, was murdered by him. Also discussed is the feminists who defended Roman Polanski, though I have to say that I was relieved to see that the majority of vocal feminists want his head on a platter. (For those who haven’t yet found out, it wasn’t just statutory rape; the creep drugged a 13-year-old girl and raped her orally, vaginally and anally while she kept telling him no and asking him to stop. In other words, it was “rape-rape”.)

The idiot woman who dated an obviously dangerous man is also discussed here: Slain Va. mom, daughter had counseling over music.

The mom was a professorette of criminal justice “who specialized in violence against women but has taught classes in homicide”. She co-wrote a book on sexual violence. This woman was paid to spend all of her time studying this stuff and she couldn’t tell her daughter, “Don’t date a horrorcore rapper”?

Male Call: BEYOND POWER

Life in the prehistoric era, as Marilyn French tells it, was apparently much like that in a modern Scout camp. Early humans fished and frolicked, lived off the land and sat around communal fires at night talking, singing and indulging in sexual banter. Life was generally not hard, she says, and peace reigned between the sexes and between humans and nature. This idyllic era, a source of some nostalgia for the author, fell victim to the most decisive and perfidious event in history: the rise of patriarchy….

Along the way, French dispenses reams of disinformation. Middle-class women of the 18th century, she writes, got pregnant easily because they were inactive. Regarbling an already muddled item from Ms. magazine, she says that President Carter wanted to send female soldiers into Afghanistan, and that the Afghan rebellion occurred partly because of the Soviet demand that women be allowed to read, write and attend village meetings. China and the Soviet Union are listed as the world leaders in allowing women to fulfill themselves.

I’m pleasantly surprised to see feminist yapping ridiculed in a PC publication like Time.