Category Archives: Family

Defending Men From Their Defenders…

Posted on April 15, 2018 by bsixsmith

Lads. Fellas. Brothers. Men. Put down that six pack of beer. Throw away that football. Lock up those assault weapons. Feminists are here to help. Yes, it might have looked like some of them were hostile to the male sex … Continue reading →

Posted in Mental Health, Sex | 3 Comments

Cat-Owning Journalists Lecture Married Man…

Posted on March 31, 2017 by bsixsmith

Vice President Mike Pence has caused controversy by saying he does not eat alone with women other than his wife and he does not drink alcohol outside of her presence. Me, I thought the second claim was the weird one. … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Sex, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

NLSJ, Motherhood Edition…

Posted on March 26, 2017 by bsixsmith

One aspect of the neoliberal subsumption of feminist ideas is the demeaning of motherhood. Raising children, it is often argued or implied, is not enough for one’s existence to be meaningful. One must also work. That is true for some … Continue reading →

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The Provocateur and the Pederasts…

Posted on February 22, 2017 by bsixsmith

Milo Yiannopoulos was a speeding car, destined to crash. The British controversialist has spun into his biggest scandal yet, as he has been charged with excusing paedophilia. Specifically, he claimed that older men sleeping with “sexually mature 13-year-olds” might be … Continue reading →

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Cheating is Still Bad…

Posted on December 13, 2016 by bsixsmith

I don’t want to sound too cynical but love? It isn’t perfect. Relationships? They are hard. This has always been the case. Even in more traditional times a lot of marriages survived because of privately or implicitly acknowledged unfaithfulness. This … Continue reading →

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A Frenchman Talks About Sex, With Predictable Results…

Posted on October 30, 2016 by bsixsmith

The Guardian writes on a history of sex by the French psychiatrist Philippe Brenot. It is astonishing how much garbage one can promote if it has modish implications. Consider this: In the animal kingdom, Brenot argues, there is none of … Continue reading →

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Ménage à Terrible…

Posted on April 19, 2016 by bsixsmith

Laura Smith, in the Guardian, romanticises the open relationship of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. She approvingly quotes the author of The Second Sex‘s claim that it was the “one undoubted success in my life” and concludes that “there … Continue reading →

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On “Getting Old”…

Posted on March 25, 2016 by bsixsmith

I am 25. I am getting old. Have often have you encountered this? If not with 25-year-olds then with 26-year-olds? Or, indeed, 24-year-olds? Or 18-year-olds? Me? I am 25. I am getting old. It is said with all the weariness … Continue reading →

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The WGTOW Manifesto…

Posted on February 17, 2016 by bsixsmith

Equating enemies is often a cheap trick designed to elevate oneself above them both. Nonetheless, it can be fair. An article by Laurie Penny, a bright star of intersectional feminism, is strikingly similar to writings of the “manosphere”. Here, in … Continue reading →

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Nightmares of an Eminent Person…

Posted on July 1, 2015 by bsixsmith

Ray Monk’s biography of Bertrand Russell’s later life, The Ghosts of Madness, is among the most depressing books that I have ever read. For readers who think of Russell as the twinkly grandfather of liberal humanism it will come as … Continue reading →

Posted in Behaviour, Belief, Family, From the Archives, Rationalism, Reviews | 1 Comment