[attagirl]

Thanks for the ping. I enjoyed reading this article. Here are my comments. The only point I'd add is that the regulations the feminists were proposing applied only to men, not to the hordes of lecherous dikes teaching in "Wymyn's Studies" departments whose most prized occupational perk is brazen sexual harassment of young women with complete impunity. Yes--the dikes have aped men even so far as sexual predation showing imitation remains the best form of flattery.

The default mode of thought in women is not rational, it's emotive. Criminals and philanderers are interesting and mysterious – that's the key. It's irrelevant that they offer no real future

Brilliant.

There's a saying from some older culture to the effect that the quickest way to destroy a rival society is to ruin its women. It's a dictum undoubtedly coined by some man who probably didn't begin to grasp the stunning magnitude of the self-destructive instinct that is so much a part of Collective Woman. I think the author misses the point here. No one picked up on this. But when you have a culture of women coarsened as described above, they make terrible wives and mothers. They don't teach their daughters (who will be the arbiters of the relationships they form with men) to have lofty ideals, to fear God or to be good friends. The only thing they know is getting whatever they can out of life--by hook or by crook. This makes for the next generation being quite short-changed.

Not to digress, but it's no wonder the rational takes back seat to the emotive--the educational system fosters just this approach. Consider a typical "thought" question: You are a slave at Jefferson's Monticello. What do you think about his idea that 'all men are created equal?'" While it is true that thinking is becoming more and more emotive, it still remains a particular trait of the debased woman.)

I didn't follow the Laci thing, but from what little I know she appeared to be a happy young wife and was not disordered. It's very sad. Sometimes bad things do happen to good people. Not true of Nicole, whose life was tragic, but it sounds as if her value system was quite scewed as the women mentioned in the article.

Double standards abound, but the real tragedy is that the standards, they are a-changing to be anti-standards. The only resistance to this is to remember that the ends don't justify the means, to think for the long-term over the short-term and to espouse holy ideals.

[Maximilian]

But when you have a culture of women coarsened as described above, they make terrible wives and mothers. They don't teach their daughters (who will be the arbiters of the relationships they form with men) to have lofty ideals, to fear God or to be good friends. The only thing they know is getting whatever they can out of life--by hook or by crook. This makes for the next generation being quite short-changed.

Excellent point. We can see it happening all around us. The upcoming generation of girls are incredibly coarsened already. I think the author would agree with you. When she said, "a dictum undoubtedly coined by some man who probably didn't begin to grasp the stunning magnitude of the self-destructive instinct that is so much a part of Collective Woman," I think she was referring to exactly what you described, although this sentence wasn't very clear.