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Dennis Prager has a message for y'all.

Here is a list of eight truths about males and sexual objectification for those who have a degree in any of the “social sciences.”

1. It is completely normal for heterosexual men to see women to whom they are sexually attracted as sex objects.

2. That such sexual objectification is normal and has nothing to do with misogyny is proved by, among other things, the fact that homosexual men see men to whom they are sexually attracted as sex objects. If heterosexual men are misogynists, homosexual men are man-haters.

3. One reason for this is the almost unique power of the visual to sexually arouse men. Men are aroused just by glancing at a female arm, ankle, calf, thigh, stomach — even without ever seeing the woman’s face. Those legs, calves, arms, etc. are sexual objects. That’s why there are innumerable websites featuring them. There is nothing analogous for women. Of course, a woman can be aroused seeing a particularly handsome and masculine man. But there are no websites for women to stare at men’s legs or other male body parts.

4. Every normal heterosexual man who sees a woman as a sexual object can also completely respect her mind, her character, and everything else non-sexual about her. Men do this all the time.

It is a sign of the times that these eight points need to be spelled out. The question is, Why? Why are any of these points — known to just about every woman and man who ever lived prior to the 1960s — controversial to so many well-educated people today?

The answer is leftism and its offshoot, feminism.

makes u think

That is a taut and satisfying answer which neatly addresses any follow-up questions I might have otherwise had.

It's electrifying to be alive during such a renaissance of thought. It's like sitting at the feet of Play-Doh.

i'm sure this has been discussed on this thread before and/or others, but are there ANY "conservative intellectuals" who aren't just actually idiots with thesauruses? As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith, but for the life of me I cannot think of one single actual example of such a person. Do they really still mean, like, George Will? Jesus...

there ANY "conservative intellectuals" who aren't just actually idiots with thesauruses?

no

My takeaway is that we need to start a website that features the body parts of men (not their faces), the first of its kind, so that women can fantasize about them. I’m no entrepreneur, but I believe demand vastly outweighs supply, and it’s time to capitalize

I get the impression that the "center conservative intellectuals" are actually among the dumbest figures on the right. I'm sure that Bannon and the more radical "alt-right" thinkers are smarter than anyone who writes for National Review or the Federalist.

valerie solanas to thread xp

I'm sure that Bannon and the more radical "alt-right" thinkers are smarter than anyone who writes for National Review or the Federalist.

not if the contents of those leaked milo emails are anything to go by

Weekly Standard, The American Conservative, Reason and Commentary are all better than National Review.

better as in they actually know what they're talking about or better as in they don't just drool onto their keyboards and then press SEND?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/opDuw4OZ3QI/maxresdefault.jpg

well look we're talking about the media there's plenty of drooling going on everywhere but those institutions publish thought provoking articles on occasion. nb that i don't "read" any of them as magazines - i just get sent articles a lot and i notice that most of them come from those places.

(not most of all articles i get sent in total obv - most of the interesting right-wing articles i read)

the only conservative intellectuals I think are being honest with themselves are paleo-Catholics who advocate a retreat from the secular world

rod dreher writes for american conservative fwiw

boy does he ever

I read Larison at American Conservative regularly.

Dreher at least practices a little self-scrutiny.

that's a euphemism for guilty masturbation right

As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith....

I always attributed that to them being in DC too long and having the received establishment thinking soak in too deep.

It’s the same kinda thinking and cognitive obsession with balance/centering/moderation/bipartisanship that feeds this delusions, isn’t it? That doesn’t account for changes in the GOP that removed all the Rockefeller/northeastern republicans after the 70s.

uh otm?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453612/roy-moore-washington-post-allegations-saving-moore-isnt-worth-it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOmsoptW0AAUwsF.jpg

"Ladies and gentlemen" always sounded absurd in the context of subway announcements.

Laaadies aaaaaaand Gentlemen! Due to police activity at 14th Street Union Square all uptown 4 and 5 trains are currently delayed.

first they came for 'pocketbooks' and i said nothing

LOLry is happy

wow, he's right, they've accomplished so much great stuff, good job team!

"...we can’t say that we’ve come up empty handed."

Interesting choice of phrasing here.

So of course I have pneumonia. Because that's what everyone comes back from Hawaii with.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 3, 2018

2018 is looking up.

yeah, it must have been hawaii that gave him pneumonia rather than spending years blogging from the front seat of his car as his lungs struggle to process the vehicle’s swampy, cargo-short-tainted air

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_845ywsAF1Oc/R14KltELALI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hG8T6VV0uy4/s320/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg

"Waddup, peeps? Any #NeverTrumpers with big knockers looking to cool it behind Wal-Mart, hit me up!!"

I showed this to Lord Sotosyn, who, aghast, asked me to post it here, in honor of his 'delightful' appearance last night on Tucker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNbmLIW8PmA

no quotation marks necessary

A dark delight if you will.

https://i.imgur.com/MfH7jJF.png

ladies and gentlemen, righteous christian thinker rod dreher

Jesus fucking Christ on the cross, as it were

That’s so un-Christian it offends me as a Jew

Hey you guys don't know he's not white.

(That's what "Christian" means, right?)

tbf ‘the destructive culture of the poor’ might the whitest phrase ever written

he didn't give me enough of a chance to think about section 8 houseing

"the people who turned their neighborhood into a shithole"

oh. you must mean the slumlord who lives down the block from you.

Remember back during the early Clinton years when the Left made a big push for paid family leave via a federal mandate to employers? Fortunately, that was stopped – but the idea won’t go away. Recently, two AEI scholars advanced the idea of paid family leave, but not through a mandate on employers. Their concept was to tap into Social Security. New parents could collect Social Security for twelve weeks, but to offset that, they would have to wait somewhat longer before becoming eligible for Social Security retirement benefits. Apparently, that idea has found some favor in Republican circles.

In my latest article for Forbes, I argue that this is still a bad idea.

Why? In essence, it’s Obama’s “Life of Julia” stuff with a conservative pedigree, continuing to promote the notion that the purpose of government is to provide for our needs.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

christ on a fucking crutch that's depressing

america is 20th out of the 21 highest-income countries when it comes to the length of protected maternity leave btw

continuing to promote the notion that the purpose of government is to provide for our needs

^ Longs for the good old days when the purpose of government was to hunt down your escaped slaves and return them to you.

technically that too would be providing for a need, from the point of view of the slave-owning class, so i now have to wonder whether this person wants a government that provides for things we don't need, or one that actively obstructs us from having our needs met, or what.

It's always easy to find evidence of my belief that American conservatives are essentially death cultists who seek to cause the preventable, premature deaths of as many humans as possible

Arm Teachers

by ROBERT VERBRUGGEN February 15, 2018 10:21 AM @RAVERBRUGGEN

I agree with everything my colleague David French wrote this morning about yesterday’s tragedy. We are facing a jarring rise of highly deadly mass shootings — even if such incidents remain a tiny share of our overall homicide problem — and we must remain vigilant in our communities. I further agree with Jim Geraghty that authorities must act on the information they receive. Too often when these things happen, there were warning signs that should have led to action before anyone was killed.

Also, we can make schools more secure.

As Robby Soave notes over at Reason, many schools have already taken numerous steps, such as installing metal detectors; Marjory Stoneman Douglas itself has a resource officer. There are also downsides to putting more cops in schools, such as their growing involvement in what should be mere discipline issues.

But here are two reforms that schools can make at minimal expense. First, if they have unarmed security guards, they can hire armed ones instead. And two, they can pay their teachers a little extra to become trained as armed security guards and carry guns while on the job.

Per the Houston Chronicle’s Chron.com, The amount of training required (to become an armed guard( in each state varies. In Oklahoma, for instance, applicants must complete two phases of unarmed guard training, for a total of 40 hours, and 32 hours of firearms training; Tennessee requires only four hours of unarmed guard training and eight hours of firearms training.

That’s something a teacher could easily accomplish during summer vacation, even if schools insisted on rigorous training. If a few teachers in each school did this, schools would gain a line of defense against shooters without hiring more personnel or introducing more police officers into the school environment.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456460/florida-school-shooting-arm-teachers

i'm not a teacher but i think if my employer asked me to be ready to murder people as part of my job - even in self-defence - i'd probably have some serious objections even if there was a 'little extra' payment for doing so