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Christmas In The Highlands

 A review of sorts. It will be short though. Yesterday we watched a very nice Hallmark Christmas movie called Christmas In The Highlands. We all enjoyed it very much. It's kind of modern interpretation of a Cinderella story, with a simple working gal from New York meeting her Prince Charming in the Scottish Highlands. It's pretty traditional, too, and family friendly. 

There is no nudity, no profanity, no s8xual content of any kind, no violence and little multiculturalism. There is beautiful Scottish scenery, Christmas markets, a traditional ball, rather decent acting and a fairy tale atmosphere. 

You can watch the whole of it over here. Suitable for all ages.

Christ Is The Reason For The Season

 

Christmas Eve

 Merry Christmas everyone!

Here are some of my Christmas decorations:

Winter Solstice

 It's Winter Solstice today. Not that we have seen much of the sun at all. It became light at 10 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. it was night again. And it's been raining pretty much the whole day.

So here are some nice vacation pictures to remind you all that summer will come again:)

Should We Feel Pity For OnlyF8ns Wh8res?

 19th century classic literature with its sentimentalism gave us this trope of a "wh8re with a heart of gold" and it has been poisoning the debate on "fallen women" ever since.

Now 19th century folks did have an excuse for simping. There was a lot of poverty and basically no age of consent laws. Poor families would sell their daughters into pr8stitution as young as 9 or 10 in some cases. Obviously, the children were victims in these type of situations and the pity was deserved. There was also little in the way of workplace harassment prevention and some poor governess or a maidservant or a circus girl without social status or connections could be easily seduced and often pressured into s8xual relations with her male employer. Some chose it out of their own free will, of course, but the consequences, such as pregnancy could cost her her reputation and employment opportunities, with pr8stitution as the only way out.

Now this all is in the past. We have laws protecting women and children. Sometimes these laws go so far as disadvantaging men, like workplace harassment rules in some countries.

OnlyF8ns "girls" aren't pressured into anything, they consider themselves "models" and entrepreneurs. They freely choose to degrade themselves online for money. They engage in wh8redom because it's an easy way to earn, unlike some boring office job, taking care of unruly kids at school or changing bedpans in the hospital. These types of employment aren't really glamorous, but it's an honest way to make a living nonetheless.

These girls also aren't in danger of starvation because nowadays if you don't want to/can't work you can easily get some welfare. Hence, again, it's their free choice. 

They deserve absolutely no pity and yes, they should be shamed for it. Women who defend them online basically defend harl8try and come across as lacking any sort of morals. You know the type who cheats on her boyfriend and then expects him to raise her baby as his own.

Men who sign up for these services are losers, and those who defend it are simps. Seriously, she isn't a damsel in distress, she is someone who sells pictures of her b8888ole to guys for money. 

It's really embarrassing.

He Dodged A Bullet

 Likely

Weimar In UK

 yeah, I mean that girl Lilly with her 100 man trainwreck.

Twitter has pushed this subject into my timeline every single day for like a week now. What can I say? She is despicable, the men who signed up are despicable, her mum who pimps her own daughter for money is the most despicable of all. Kinda makes me understand why Taliban puts potato sacks on their women, they are probably following it all on social media, too.

That said, some of the supposedly Christian takes on this whole debacle were rather disappointing. None of the persons mentioned above is beyond redemption.

When Your Wife Works Outside Home

 Probably one of the reasons the Scriptures teach that (married) women should be keepers at home, no?

 

Image taken from Twitter

Corona Vaccine And Excess Mortality

 Interesting article (albeit an old one) and especially, the discussion (if you have patience to read 1100+ comments).

The reason I linked to it is because some places like Twitter are still full of people who claim everyone is dying left and right because of the Corona vaxx which is simply not my experience. The author basically makes a claim that the excess deaths, particularly in the USA, were due to high obesity rates which appears plausible enough though many of his readers disagree quite strongly. 

Feel free to express your thoughts in the comments below!

1950s Family Vs Modern Family

 What changed? 

I guess I have to apologise for the lack of effort posting lately:) The reason for this is we were busy celebrating my husband's birthday and St Nicholas Day with the relatives. We did it two times already and next weekend we are planning to celebrate it with our own small family by going to the Midwinter Fair.

Anyway. We had an enlightening conversation with an elderly aunt about "good old days" when women didn't work outside home. We all know it's because everybody was awfully wealthy in the 1940s and 1950s, like in these Hollywood movies, right? Unlike now when everyone is dirt poor due to the Boomers stealing all the wealth for themselves, so they really need these 2 incomes to survive.

She was talking about some cousin who used to live in our neighbourhood. She and her husband had 4 children together and would probably have more but he died early leaving her a widow. This family of 6 used to live in a house of about 50smth m2 (square meters) which are now sold as the houses for 1 or 2.

So here's your answer. That's how they managed to survive on 1 income in those days. This and men having 50+ hours working week as opposed to modern sensitive males with back pain who only can manage to work 36 hours max. This and the wives cooking everything from scratch, hardly ever going to eat out and not demanding luxury vacations 3 times a year. Simple really.

By the way about Boomers. Folks online, especially those from the USA love to accuse them of all sorts of stuff. Now I get it, Boomers are weird in some ways and slightly irritating at times. However, IF they are guilty of something, it's really of buying into this idea that every generation is going to be wealthier than the previous one and teaching this entitlement to their children.

The truth is that post WWII era of everyone getting richer every decade was a historical aberration and it's not coming back.

Did The Pill Cause Your Divorce?

 A long but interesting article:

Commonly used contraceptive pills may change natural mate preferences however. These pills introduce hormones that suppress ovulation and lead to temporary fertility loss, similarly to what happens during pregnancy. Consequently, heterosexual women's perception of men may serve a different function than that occurring around ovulation: They may pursue a cooperative partner who assists with child care rather than a genetically compatible partner.³ Women may therefore revert to having opposite mate preferences, becoming fixed on seeking less genetically compatible men whose body odor resembles that of their apparently supportive genetic relatives.⁴

To the extent that contraceptive pill use alters mate preferences (read more here), women who had taken hormonal contraceptives while meeting their partner and later discontinued their usage (as many do when they wish to conceive) may feel disenchanted with their initial partner choice. Indeed, the use of hormonal contraceptives may not only affect initial partner choice but also have unintended consequences for women’s relationship satisfaction if contraceptive pill use subsequently changes.

 In plain language. A healthy heteros8xual woman is attracted to assertive masculine men. The pill, on the other hand, can make her choose a feminine soyboy a modern sensitive male. When she tries to conceive and stops taking it she predictably gets disgusted disappointed and may  even divorce him. And if she doesn't, the result will be dysgenic especially if she gets sons. It's almost like it's a conspiracy. Now who could be behind it???

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!

Womyn's Rights Are Deadlier Than Cancer

 But you aren't allowed to point it out in the land of freedom and democracy:

The French media regulator has fined the conservative channel CNews €100,000 for, during a Catholic programme, saying that abortion is the world’s leading cause of death. The episode reveals the extent to which the debate on abortion is deadlocked in France.

In February 2024, presenter Aymeric Pourbaix, during the Catholic programme “En quête d’esprit,” broadcast every Sunday on the conservative channel CNews, showed an infographic on the causes of death, ranking abortion as the leading cause, with 73 million deaths each year worldwide. That translates to 52% of annual deaths, far ahead of cancer (10 million) and smoking (6.2 million).

Even if you don't believe in God, but believe in "science'' instead, a society which kills its young on an industrial scale is evolutionary not fit to survive.

Criminalisation Of H8teros8xuality

 Just a thought on all the recent s8x scandals. Rich and powerful men have always, always been polygamous. Why? Because they can afford it. Yet we are supposed to faint like a Victorian old maid because some of them (gasp) visited wh8res and (gasp) paid for s8x and (bring me my smelling salts, quick, I can't take it any more) cheated on their wives. 

I would take this new puritanism much more seriously if it didn't proceed from the society which promotes the most degenerate sh8t since the fall of Rome. I also notice that they usually target men with these wild accusations who in some way are dangerous for the system (like Julian Assange) while totally ignoring identical behaviour in others.

The process itself is the punishment.  

I'm Sorry

DISCLAIMER:

Of course, I don't approve of such unladylike behaviour;))) And the word choice.

 but this is really funny:

  

Found on Twitter/X

Will Seed Oils Make You Fat

 Not necessarily. Unless you eat a whole lot of them:

 The average American consumes more than 3,600 calories daily – a 24% increase from 1961, when the average was just 2,880 calories.

Americans haven't increased their consumption of all food and drink evenly, however — our alcohol intake peaked in the 1980s, but our growing consumption of vegetable oils alone accounts for more than half of the calorie spike.

The article is from 2017 but I doubt the situation has improved. For the record, your daily caloric intake is supposed to be much lower:

Americans are consuming far more calories each day than is recommended (daily intake should be around 2,000 calories for women and 2,500 for men).

 

Will A Crunchy Lifestyle Make You More Christian

Recently I got this comment:

Hello Sanne. This morning I was recalling several blog posts you wrote about ( some) Christians thinking they must wear "Prairie Clothes, homestead, etc." in order to be a proper Christian. They were along these lines, anyway .
Would you be willing to write more on this?

...Part of what I've come through is just that type of thinking , that in order to do it "right" I must look a certain way or do certain things within my family.
I see more clearly now, Glory to God, but online I still see so much of this.
I would love to hear more of your thoughts

You see, it's difficult to write on this topic because if you go into too much detail as by giving examples of what you mean, you are sure to offend both those to the left and to the right of you:) But I will try.

First of all, one should keep in mind that most anyone with some presence online such as a blog/twitter/facebook account etc is an influencer (that includes me as I'm trying to influence people to question feminism and other things). There is nothing wrong with it, of course, but most influencers will try to earn either by selling you a product or by trying to influence your politics which they are often paid for, or in some other way. 

A lot of them are good, sincere people who believe in what they say, but some are more nefarious or downright grifters.

People say that social media is like a town square where you can exchange your opinions, but it's not entirely true because when I'm exchanging opinions with my neighbours in real life, they aren't trying to constantly sell me something, or telling me for which candidate to vote.

That is something to keep in mind when dealing with internet personalities, especially famous ones with a lot of followers.

What does it have to do with Christianity, you ask. Well, it's true for the Christian influencers as well. Except that they often will try not only to influence your politics, but your theology as well. Simply put, they'll often try to persuade you that their brand of Christianity is the only correct one and you have to do things exactly their way, otherwise you are a bad Christian or even not saved at all.

The most important division in the Christian world is between Roman Catholics/Eastern Orthodox (these churches are quite similar in doctrine though their adherents will often fight with each other online) and Protestants. Theological division between these two traditions is very wide and both sides consider each other heretics (though most will be too polite to admit it).

Protestants in theory all have similar beliefs, and yet they fight even more between themselves that Catholics and Orthodox. 

Now I'm not talking about liberals over here, those who believe in ordination of women, or deny the inerrancy of the Scriptures. This is quite another can of worms, and I hope that my readers are all Bible believing Christians. 

However, even among more right wing denominations there is a lot of division over doctrinal issues, and, of course, you'll see it online. For instance, some churches believe that vaccination is not Biblical. While others don't have any teaching about this. Personally I believe that this issue falls under Christian freedom. 

There are things in the Bible which are quite clear, like the 10 Commandments. And there are some things which aren't addressed at all, like what TV show it's OK to watch. I believe God gave us brains and the capability to discern Good and Evil so that we would use it for these "grey areas" of life. 

If you belong to a certain church it appears natural to me that you will follow it's doctrine, but you'll use your discernment capabilities to see if this church isn't falling into open heresy (which happens much too often nowadays). Also, women have men in their life (husbands, fathers, brothers) to ask questions about these things, however, I do believe in the freedom of conscience. A woman can have very strong convictions about some things being sinful which her husband doesn't share (like wearing short skirts). If it's absolutely against your conscience to do something, I believe it overrides earthy authorities. 

So while Christians are supposed to live in a certain way as the Bible teaches (or their understanding of it) they have a considerable freedom to choose their politics, their diet, medical treatment for their families, whether to live in a city or in the country, how to educate their children etc, using their discernment, of course, and not compromising their faith.

That's the way I see it personally.

Armistice And Feminism

 Is there a connection?

Yesterday it was Armistice/Veteran's Day (in the USA). We don't celebrate it in my country because we had good sense not to fight.

The main result of "the war to end all wars" was the destruction of the European Christian civilisation, but also the fall of European monarchies, Weimar Republic and the female emancipation, of course. We all know about flappers with their short skirts and short hair, but it really started during the war itself, when women started working in factories (because men left for the front), and driving ambulances under enemy fire to prove a point. There was also that shameful white feather campaign for which the British government rewarded women with the voting rights (still restricted for some time, if I remember correctly).

Well, our men didn't leave, so our women didn't work in those factories and we could keep our traditional way of life a little bit longer. We also didn't sacrifice the whole generation of young men for the imperial ambitions.

Sometimes the only way to win is not to fight. 

An Important Personal Note

 I changed my email address. I mostly used to get spam at my old address, plus emails from the admin that they are going to block my account. I'm not sure you could even contact me through it any more.

My new address is 

SanneWt@proton.me 

You can also find it in my profile

Looking forward to hearing from you soon:)

Christians Are Allowed To Get Angry

 As Christians, we have a surfeit of evidence that anger can indeed be righteous. Scripture tells us that God is both slow to anger and that His wrath is quickly kindled depending on the circumstance, but both acknowledge the reality of holy anger. And Jesus Christ, the only perfect and sinless man, felt and even acted in anger on several occasions towards money-changers and Pharisees. To call anger inherently sinful is therefore an explicit denial of God’s Word and condemnation of His character.

Read the whole article over here

Election Day In The Usa

 My prediction: D.Trump will win. I can be mistaken, of course.We'll see tomorrow, I guess.

Is Ozempic A Miracle Drug?

 Some of its side effects:

• tachycardia,
• pancreatitis, and
• kidney damage.

Additionally, animal studies suggest Ozempic has the potential to cause thyroid cancer, which may lead to lumps in the throat and dysphagia. It's important to be aware of these potential risks and consult your healthcare provider if you experience any severe symptoms. 

Never mind though, they say it happens "rarely" and they "don't know" if it really causes cancer so it must be OK then I guess.

Because It's Halloween

 

A Real Life Horror Story

 The organs of a Kentucky donor who had been declared dead were ready to be harvested — but then doctors made a startling discovery: he was still alive...

Earlier that day, the donor had undergone cardiac catheterization, which is used to evaluatethe heart’s health before or after a transplant.

“The donor had woken up during his procedure that morning for a cardiac catheterization. And he was thrashing around on the table,” Martin said. But then, doctors sedated the patient and continued to plan to recover his organs, she added.

“That’s everybody’s worst nightmare, right? Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open and take your body parts out?” Martin told NPR. “That’s horrifying.”

Read the whole story over here. 

 

Van Helsing 2004

 Since October is a Halloween month, we decided to watch a horror film to celebrate it and chose this one.

The plot is rather simple. Van Helsing who lost his memory many years ago, but knows that he is very old, hunts monsters in the service of a secret order within the Catholic Church. He is sent to Transylvania to kill Dracula, together with friar Carl. There he meets Anna Velkan, the last descendant of a noble family who is on the same mission and whose brother was turned into a werewolf by Dracula. Her ancestor made an oath that unless he or someone of his family destroys Dracula, they won't be able to enter Paradise and will spend the eternity in Purgatory.

Van Helsing kills one of Dracula's brides and forms an alliance with Anna, while Dracula is plotting to conquer the world and is looking for a new bride...

I should say that the movie is not really very horrific but very entertaining. Strange enough, it wasn't a success when it came out, the fact that many commenters on YouTube trailers found surprising. My theory is that it's due to the fact that it shows the Catholic Church in positive light, something which those who run the MSM in the USA don't really appreciate.

It's also quite traditional because it shows that Evil, though seductive, is still Evil. There are no redeeming qualities in Dracula, which is quite unlike the later abominations of shining s8xy vampires courting high school girls. Europeans are played by European looking actors. Girrl power isn't very annoying. Etc etc. Both adversaries are played by the very handsome actors, btw, and Anna is beautiful, too.

On the negative side, the hint that Van Helsing is the incarnation of Gabriel (yes, that one) is bordering on blasphemous, imo. 

If you are into this kind of movies and haven't seen this particular one, I'd recommend it.

Thoughts On Sunscreen

 We had a discussion on this topic in spring;)

My experiences so far. First I tried one with titanium dioxide, as it's supposed to be free of harmful chemicals. Well, may be, it is but it's also a thick paste and I couldn't tolerate it. 

I bought spf30 and 50 from a local brand. SPF30 worked well until we went on a vacation to the south of Germany. The sun was pretty strong there in May and despite using sunscreen royally I still got burned so I had to buy a cap and try to cover myself more.

In high summer (July-August) I switched to spf50 but it was my mistake. The temps were around 30*C and my skin started to itch. I developed some sort of allergy and couldn't use spf30 either. And it was too warm for my sun cap. So I bought myself a sun visor and a long sleeved shirt to wear on top and went with long skirts only. And it was fine. 

I also mostly tried to avoid direct sun during the day and wore a big hat while sitting on a terrace outside. Plus we used awnings. It became cooler in September so i could use spf30 again without any problem. Now in October we have sun strength 1-2 so unless I spend a lot of time in direct sunlight I don't use any protection. 

My conclusion. Spf30 doesn't really help well when the sun is strong and you spend a lot of time outdoors. Mechanical protection (awnings, hats, caps, clothes) and avoiding direct sunlight gives better results + you don't have to use chemical stuff on your skin. Though I wonder if a normal day cream is so much better for you...

Female Education And Society

 It destroys more than just the TFR:

Every society faces a fundamental choice. Either deny men what they observably and actually prefer or deny women what they think they prefer in theory. Across the West, the last 60 years have been an experiment in the latter. Women have been given the red carpet treatment in the corporations, in the universities, and even in the men’s locker rooms. Divorces and custodies have been granted on demand. Pregnancies have been prevented. Babies have been aborted. Obesity and ugliness have been celebrated. The churches have been de-doctrinated and literally neutered. Refugees have been welcomed. The insane have been liberated from their asylums.

And yet, not only are women unhappier than they were before being granted their collective societal bucket list, men are increasingly opting out of every form of participation in society.

Which European Country Will Go Extinct First?

 For some time we thought it was Spain, but there is another contender:

Poland’s ongoing demographic collapse continues, with the once conservative Catholic country featuring high birth rates, now a land increasingly of childless women and men

Only Spain is a match for Poland, according to data from Birth Gauge, a website that tracks demographic trends around the world. In fact, things have never been this bad in Poland.

The data was shared by Andrzej Kubisiak, deputy director of the Polish Economic Institute, in an X post.

“The total birth rate for Poland in 2024 may be the lowest in the whole of Europe (ex aequo with Spain) and amount to 1.12 This is the worst result in our modern history,” wrote Kubisiak.

France seems to be doing better than most. We all know why;)

 

The Ideal Woman Doesn't Exist

 and neither does the ideal man. A good post by VD:

 One of the negative aspects of the digital world is the way in which it permits both men and women to dwell in an imaginary environment in which the opposite sex partners they rate are absolutely unattainable in real life. Just as Tinder and other social media permits women to attract attention from men who will never, ever, consider them as potential girlfriend or wife material, games and movies permit men to indulge themselves in fantasy relationships with the kind of women who would not even notice them in real life.

 

Is There Nothing Sacred In Britain Anymore???

 Or at least in Wales:

The Welsh ruler, who is best known for attempting to find the Holy Grail, has featured in the council's 88BTQ+ timeline as a result of his attire...

The earliest references to King Arthur date back to a time where he was depicted as a successful "dux bellorum" - or warlord.

Mentioned throughout the Welsh mythological book The Mabinogion, King Arthur's sexuality has never knowingly been mentioned in scripture.

It's since been claimed the ruler was included in the timeline because he "wore women's clothing".

 What does it make all the women wearing pants then??? Also, how do they know this King Arthur even existed let alone what he wore?

Loose Lips Sink Ships

 You may have heard about this WWII propaganda:

 

 Nowadays sailors have more reasons than ever to be wary of women:

 Trolls have targeted the female New Zealand Navy captain after a $100million ship sank under her command, forcing the country's Defence Minister to blast the 'armchair admirals' and stress her gender was not to blame.

Yeah, but how do we know? Would they tell us the truth do you think?

 It is the first occasion in peacetime that the New Zealand Navy has lost a ship and a Court of Inquiry has been launched to establish what went wrong.

Many online trolls have taken aim at Commander Yvonne Gray who has been in charge of the vessel since 2022 - her first ship command.

Commander Gray, originally from Yorkshire in the UK, moved to New Zealand in 2012 with her wife Sharon after falling in love with the country during a campervan holiday.

The critics accused Commander Gray of being appointed to the role due to her gender and/or sexuality rather than her qualifications.

Situation clear enough methinks

It happened in New Zealand but should be posted under Britain, yes imo.

BTW, weren't we all taught that if something goes wrong on board the ship it's always the Captain's fault/responsibility???

Father Of The Year?

 A bizarre story out of New Zealand:

A fugitive father and his three children have been spotted together for the first time in nearly three years, along the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island.

Just before Christmas 2021, Tom Phillips fled into the Waikato wilderness with his children Ember, now 8, Maverick, now 9, and Jayda, now 11, following a dispute with their mother.

Phillips has not been seen since last November after he allegedly stole a quad bike from a rural property and broke into a shop in Piopio. CCTV footage showed two figures on a street, believed to be him and one of the children.

You can read the rest over here:

Female Education Or Fertility?

 Apparently, you can't have both:

 "We know rapid economic development in low-income countries has a huge impact on fertility rates," Per Espen Stoknes, director of the Centre for Sustainability at Norwegian Business School and the project lead of Earth4All, said in a statement. "Fertility rates fall as girls get access to education and women are economically empowered (i.e have a career) and have access to better healthcare (abortion and contraception)."

 Norwegian TFR is currently 1.4, btw. Westerners clearly deserve everything that comes our way...

Who Is Really Behind "Family Planning" ?

 Here is a noteworthy article from NY Times (of course;) which decries recent Chinese attempts to improve their abysmal birth rates:

...Faced with a declining population that threatens economic growth, the Chinese government is responding with a time-tested tactic: inserting itself into this most intimate of choices for women, whether or not to have a child...

At the very least, the in-your-face approach makes it harder for women to tune out calls by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, to get married and have babies. To some, it is outright invasive; on social media, women have complained about being approached by neighborhood officials, including some who they said called to ask the date of their last menstrual cycle.

Mr. Xi, who has overseen a crackdown on feminist activism, has said that promoting childbirth as a national priority is one step toward ensuring that women “always walk with the party.” (The country’s total fertility rate, a measure of the number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime, is among the world’s lowest. The rate is estimated at around 1.0, compared to 1.62 in the United States last year.) 

 South Korea has an even lower TFR with few attempts to improve it, btw.

The fertility campaign is also a reminder that the Chinese Communist Party has a long history of imposing its will on people’s reproductive decisions. For decades starting in the 1970s, it enforced a one-child policy, sometimes brutally. Officials fined couples who had unauthorized pregnancies and even forced some women to undergo abortions.

Here is something interesting. Some day somewhere on an American discussion forum I read that this policy had a Western origin. I did a short Google search and that it what I found:

In our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast... we describe an academic paper by a Dutch mathematics professor that might have been one of the inspirations of the controversial One Child Policy in China...

He meets Song Jian, a visitor from China with a Ph.D. in engineering from Moscow University. According to Olsder, they went out for beers and talked about population planning. Olsder thought nothing of it.

Song was a ballistics missiles specialist, but by the end of the 1980s he had established a theory of population control in Chinese political and science circles. Susan Greenhalgh, an expert on the One Child Policy who served 10 years at the Population Council, notes in her book that Song formed his theory largely based on ideas from the Club of Rome publication The Limits of Growth — a 1972 Malthusian work that hinted at catastrophe if resources and population were not balanced.

 A conspiracy theory? May be. However, I bet that China was not the only one country influenced. What is this "Club Of Rome" you will ask? Per Wikipedia, 

The Club of Rome is a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists^{[clarification needed]} of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe.

The Limits To Growth was their 1st report, btw. But back to the article. In case you didn't know, the Chinese are now officially allowed to have 3 children:

As China’s economy developed, the party stepped back somewhat, though it never relinquished authority altogether, ruling in 2021 that couples could have three children.

But they don't want to. 

“We’re not like people born in the 1970s or ’80s. Everyone knows that people born after the ’90s generally don’t want kids,” Ms. Yang said. 

Because, you see, women have other concerns now:

For many women, the government’s nagging seemed out of step with their concerns... It failed to address the high cost of raising children and how they would juggle motherhood alongside their careers and other ambitions. (emphasis mine).

Just like in the West, Chinese women find reproducing too much trouble:

Zhang Rongxing, 38, who was walking with her preschool-age son near the artwork on a recent morning, said that local officials had asked both over the phone and in person if she was planning on having another child.

She was not. The two she already had were enough. “It’s too much work,” she said. “Mentally, financially, in terms of time.”

The Chinese government is trying to restrict abortions, too, which genuinely worries the NY Times journalist, by some reason:

Some scholars, activists and ordinary women have worried that the government could move more forcefully to limit women’s choices. The central government has pledged in several recent health plans to reduce “medically unnecessary abortions”...

It's funny that Western MSM are decrying Chinese government's interference into "personal choices" while pushing the fertility reduction measures such as female tertiary education and hormonal birth control combined with feminism everywhere in the world, based on a paper written in 1972 by some unelected "intellectuals.

Women Who Destroy Their Marriages

 Interesting post and discussion:

 It’s pretty clear that the wives are mostly ending the marriages over relatively petty dissatisfactions with life rather than abuse, infidelity, or anything particularly serious. One woman described her regrets five years after ending her marriage; she even says that she’d abandon her current boyfriend and go back to her husband in an instant if he would have her.

The Real Reason For The Female Education

 Let's close in on some countries with a high TFR. Enter Nigeria: TFR of 5.

Age of consent (official): 18. Alphabet stuff: illegal.  

Average age of 1st marriage for females: 19.2

What about their education system?

...there are still many challenges preventing gender equality in the Nigerian education system. There is a significant bias against female involvement in specific academic disciplines, with studies showing the existence of gender-based stereotyping of students by teachers in secondary schools.^[73] The most dominant barriers are currently teen pregnancy, teen marriage, religious beliefs, poverty, and poor school facilities.

Though they probably do marry earlier than the official age in rural areas, please keep in mind that 18 and 19 year olds are still in their teens. BTW, the age of consent in my country is currently 16. Somehow it's OK for girls at this age to "experiment with their s8xuality" as some retarded mother wrote online, but Heaven forbid they marry and get pregnant. No, off to school she goes till the age of 30. 

Wikipedia gives  2 mutually exclusive reasons for this weird Nigerian tradition of marrying and multiplying. It's a) colonialism which imposed 'ideology of domesticity' whatever the heck it is. b) African national customs :

According to work done by Denga, one prominent cultural view is that it is better for the woman to stay home and learn to tend to her family instead of pursuing Western education.

Well, I guess you can't have both a high TFR and female emancipation, and since we are a very enlightened culture, we choose extinction with open eyes.

 

Does The Formerly Christian West Have A Future?

 

Just in case you thought I was joking. Total Fertility Rate Map by country, courtesy of Wikipedia. One could also call it, The Road To Extinction. Afghanistan is doing fine, though. I wonder why???

Birth Control Is Pest Control

 Why do you think they are offering it to your daughters?

New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth control...

If all goes well with the plan, rats will ingest the contraceptive and become sterilized — thus preventing them from filling city streets with successive generations of scamperers...

 Back in 1967, then-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller rolled out a program that dosed rats with estrogen-laced food — but their numbers evidently persevered.

They did succeed with women though, especially with White European ones. 

The plan was also a hit with PETA, which expressed hope in a statement that the city was a “whisker away” from resolving its rat issue in a humane way.

“Hats off to the council for taking this big step to save lots of precious little lives. PETA pushed the city and its self-described ‘bloodthirsty’ rat czar to prioritize effective control methods like trash mitigation and birth control over cruel, lethal methods such as poison and suffocation,” the animal-rights group said.

Draw your own conclusions out of this story. 

The Problem Of Weak Men, Part2

 Recently I watched a movie called Speak No Evil. (You can watch the trailer over here). It's a Danish horror film from 2022, though I'd rather describe it as a psychological thriller. (Hollywood made a remake this year, which is now apparently in the theaters. I'm not planning to watch this one. I think the Danish director did a great job, and wouldn't like to see it butchered (though I could be mistaken). 

The plot is simple. A Danish middle class couple with a young daughter goes on vacation to Italy where they meet a Dutch couple with the boy of about the same age who doesn't talk. They become friendly with each other. A couple of months later, the Dutch couple invite the Danish to come and visit them in the Netherlands. They live in a remote place, their house is in the forest and there are no neighbours nearby. Well, you can guess how it goes further. Suffice it to say, someone is not making it out of there alive...

It looks to me like the director spent some time in the Netherlands himself and didn't particularly like it over here, because the Dutch husband and wife repeatedly demonstrate the worst kind of behaviour typical for a certain class of my countrymen (unfortunately). Each of them is like a walking stereotype of a Dutch assh8le, very realistically portrayed at that, so much that you recognise the situations.

This movie is deeply disturbing at many levels, and the guy who recommended it admitted that he couldn't sleep well after watching it. However, I don't believe that the intention of its makers was just to shock the audience. It's not just your average run-of-the-mill horror film. Wikipedia calls it "social satire" and that's exactly what it is. The main character, Bjorn, is a stereotypical modern liberal man. He is in touch with his feelings. He is a sensitive husband. He is what they call nowadays "a good father", i.e. he basically spends more time with their daughter than his wife does.

And yet, when it comes to that, he can't fulfill the fundamental masculine role of protecting his family. He can't stand up to bullying and abuse. He won't fight even to save his life. He ignores his deepest survival instincts to follow social conventions of always being pleasant and polite. In fact, he is so weak he can't even say, "no", to his daughter, which leads to the disaster for all of them. He is a perfect victim, and so is his wife. The evil triumphs in the end because a weak man surrenders to it, instead of fighting. The whole movie is the scathing criticism of what a modern middle class man has turned into. And not only in Denmark.

I highly recommend this movie to anyone interested.

The Problem Of Weak Men

 Recently I finished the book by Ellery Queen (those were actually two male co-authors, not one person) called Losers, Weepers. It came out in 1966 and it's a story about a guy called Jim Morgan who works for an engineering company and has severe financial issues. Then one day he goes to a bar, and while he is using the restroom someone exchanges his bag for the one with 100 000$ in it. Cash. And that's how all his problems begin...

You see, Jim Morgan is married to a very beautiful woman called Anita who is a shopaholic, to use a modern term. She keeps buying things on credit, and as a result, they are deeply in debt. When she learns about the money, she sees is as their only chance to get out of poverty. And Jim is too weak-willed to say, "no'' to her.

The book was written before the American (and Western society in general) radically changed. The woman's place is still in the home. People marry young. Anita is 25 and has been married for several years. She and Jim have no children, but the idea of sending her to work never crosses his mind. He is the breadwinner and has to solve this problem himself. He tries to make her stick to the budget, but unlike modern ''loud and proud'' females, instead of starting to scream about oppression, she uses her feminine charms on him and he falls for it every time.

The story unravels in a rather unpredictable way, but several people will lose their lives and Jim knows that he is partly responsible for it. After I finished reading it, I thought it over. In 1966 America, a breadwinner husband had quite a number of ways to lay down his will on his household, yet he failed multiple times, choosing the way of the least resistance. Apart from this, he also knew what his duty was very well, but failed to act because of the fear of his wife's emotions. The story could have ended quite differently, had he behaved like the man in his position was supposed to, namely told his wife to shut up, stop wasting money like an idiot and start listening to him.

That is something which Western men have failed to do ever since, with predictable results. To sum it up, it was an entertaining book, and if you ever stumble upon it, I highly recommend it. 

Underground Christians

 They exist:

The Very Lutheran Project

Interesting. 

Watching TV Will Kill You

 A long article, but interesting nevertheless:

A sedentary lifestyle has an array of adverse health effects, including elevated all-cause mortality, CVD mortality, cancer risk, risks for metabolic diseases such as DM, HTN, dyslipidemia, and musculoskeletal diseases such as knee pain and osteoporosis...

Health outcomes also vary depending on the type of sedentary behavior and watching television led to the worst outcomes. This may be attributable to the fact that television watching is a passive sedentary behavior and that people often consume snacks while watching television. Therefore, among the various types of sedentary behaviors, individuals should refrain from watching television as much as possible, and snacking should be minimized while watching television. 

Matt Walsh And Gender Neutral Submarine

 

Your Teenager Needs You Home

 There are still women out there who would agree that mothers of young children belong home. Some would even go so far as to suggest that those kids who go to primary school should have their moms around, too. But a teenager? They can take care of themselves, can't they?

There is a small problem with this line of reasoning. Namely, the fact, that teenagers in general are prone to risk-taking behaviours, as illustrated by the previous article I linked to. Your baby isn't going to get drunk. Your toddler won't do drugs or start an orgy. Your teenager may and sometimes they will. 

When you look at the case of the teenage killer, you see a stereotypical 2 income family and a child (yes, teenagers are still children) of 14 spending long hours home alone which gave her the freedom to use drugs without her parents even suspecting anything. Because if you know something about a 2 income family (I do), then you realise that both parents are too tired in the evening to really bother. 

In my country the police recently arrested a p8do. He created fake accounts on social media pretending to be a young woman and encouraging underage boys to send him explicit material. Some of these boys were as young as 10. While the crimes against children are horrible, and should be punished severely, I keep wondering, where were the parents of these young boys? Do they take any interest in their kids' activities any more, or do they just give them a smartphone and that's it?

Mom, in the world of today your teenager needs you at home, more than ever!

Don't Waste Your Food

 An interesting article from ZeroHedge:

 As more than one trillion U.S. dollars worth of food is thrown away each year, up to 783 million people are affected by hunger.

Marihuana Is NOT An Innocent Drug

 It leads to this:

Mississippi teenage killer Carly Gregg sobbed in court Friday as she was found guilty of ruthlessly gunning down her mother and wounding her stepfather after they found out about her “secret life” with drugs earlier this year.

The 15-year-old sobbed as she was found guilty on all charges including first-degree murder, attempted murder and tampering with evidence. She will spend the rest of her life in prison without parole.

Those who supply it to teenagers in a just world would suffer severe punishments, too.

That's How You Celebrate It

 

I'm Back/Happy Hobbit Day

 And also the 1st day of autumn:) Comments moderation is back to normal.

Short Personal Notice

 I'm going away for a week (yes, I know, again:)

Comments moderation will be temporarily put on. You can still comment, I will just publish them later. Till next Sunday!

God bless

Making Money Is Not Holy

The way people talk about earning money nowadays, one could think it's akin to a religious ritual. I'll give you one example: immigration. Immigrants who profit from welfare system = double plus ungood. Immigrants who "contribute to economy" are supposedly a net positive. Yet, the end result is the same: local population gets marginalised and substituted by foreigners, mostly without any loyalty to their new country. 

Another example is working mothers. Yes, I know some really have to work, but most don't. They keep working for their wants, not their needs. You can live in an apartment instead of a semi-detached. You can live with 1 car, at least, here in Europe (we have great public transportation). The car doesn't have to be brand new. You don't need to stay in a 5 star all inclusive hotel during your vacation. There are still many families around who go camping with a tent.

You don't need a new I phone for 5000 euro. You can buy a simple smartphone for something like 200 euros. A woman definitely doesn't need the whole house full of expensive makeup, shoes and bags. The kitchen doesn't need remodeling every year. Etc etc.

So keeping it all in mind. Most people, if you asked them a question, would agree that a mother should not neglect her children or that a clean house and home cooked meals are a positive thing. They would agree that keeping in touch with your family or helping aged parents/grandparents is something praiseworthy. They would agree that social contacts and helping your neighbour are important. Most of these things have being traditionally the wife's responsibility because the husbands had to earn the income.

However, all of this goes out of the window the moment it interferes with the most important activity of a modern female: money making. It's OK to stuff your baby in a daycare with strangers, to eat processed food every day, clean your house once a month and never see your parents, and be too tired every evening for your husband in the bedroom. It's not because you are lazy or a bad mother/daughter/neighbour or whatever, it's because you devote yourself to the sacred process of earning money.

I mean how much do you really need? A shelter, food, clothes, a car, a couple of weeks vacation. This all can be bought on a budget, by being frugal and saving, the way average middle class folks used to do it before. It's still doable. I know some welfare single moms. They live in houses, their children go to school, they are normally dressed and eat quite decent food, and even go on vacation sometimes. The only thing they can't afford is driving a car, but as I said, there is such thing as public transportation.

And yet, a doctor's/dentist's wife apparently can't afford any of this and has to work. Does it even make sense to you? In fact, the statistics show that in the USA there are more working class women staying home than upper middle class ones. A truck driver can afford a SAHM, a surgeon or a lawyer can't. The love of money is the root of al evil, think of it.

How Important Is Marital S8x

I've been doing some research online on an unrelated topic and came across an Islamic Q&A site which explained the obligations of spouses. The husband, it said, owes his wife financial support as long as she makes herself  available to him.

Now imagine a Evangelical preacher saying something similar? 

And yet, pre-Vatican II Catholic priests used to teach married women that denying your husband s8x was a mortal sin. Conservative Orthodox churches still teach essentially the same. Denying your spouse their "marital rights" used to be grounds for divorce. 

By traditional definition, marriage only becomes valid after being consummated (i.e. having s8x). Marriage ceases to exist when one spouse persistently denies the other without valid medical reason. Modern Evangelicals will always stress how it's always the husband's fault if he commits the sins of lust, even when his wife kicked him out of marital bed 5 years ago. 

Let's be honest over here, does it sound reasonable to you? According to the Bible, one of the reasons for marriage is to avoid fornication by having legitimate relations with your spouse. If that spouse refuses to cooperate in this area, he or she is definitely responsible to some degree for the other spouse straying. 

Of course, there are seasons in marriage. Pregnancy and breastfeeding, illness, death etc. But outside of this, what is your excuse? Personally I blame Victorians. They concocted this ridiculous idea that women were all sugar and spice and everything nice and angels in the house raised above the beastly passions of their husbands. They had to "tolerate it all for the joys of motherhood", "lie back and think of England" and other ridiculous nonsense. Somehow modern churches decided that Victorianism is the way to go, apparently. 

Here is the thing: women are very much s8xual beings, just like men. Marriage is very much about s8x. Plus it's good for women's health, too. Please keep in mind that for a Christian, the only way to have legitimate s8x without sinning, is with one's spouse. If you aren't married, get married. And if you are, then what else do you need? Have fun together, you both deserve it!

Laziness Is Not A Mental Health Problem

 One YouTube lady made a video about overcoming laziness as a housewife and mother. She got a lot of negative comments where people (women actually) accused her of being harsh and unloving because she suggested that they should stop being so lazy and actually get up and do some housework. In fact, she didn't try to upset anyone, but just wanted to provide motivation for cleaning the house. 

All these lazy females were telling her how they have "a mental health condition" preventing them from doing anything. Of course, some people are legit handicapped or simply too old, but usually they will be able to get some sort of help from social workers so I do suspect that those enraged commenters  just didn't want to bother.

I can sympathise a bit, because honestly, housework can be repetitive and boring. I have actually come to the conclusion that I like cooking, shopping and doing laundry, but there are some things I absolutely detest, like folding the said laundry afterwards. But you know what I like? I do like a clean house, and that motivates me to get up and clean when I'd rather chill on the couch with a smartphone.

And if I can do it, you can, too. I actually heard an interesting thing in another YouTube video. A body which is in motion, stays in motion. A body which is not in motion, will just continue doing nothing so to say:) So just get up and get going, and the house will be clean before you know it. And if you have children older than a certain age, they absolutely should help, btw.

Having a clean house is a class issue, too. Ever watched Keeping Up Appearances? Yes, it satire, but there is a grain of truth in it. If one's house looks like a pigsty all the time, those people may think they are some sort of aristocracy "too good to clean", but in the reality they belong to an underclass.

If your house is a mess, so is your life. Have some pride. Be a real woman, clean your house:)

Should IVF Be Even Allowed

 Thinking about using ART?

Check this:

IVF Unmasked

Biological Fathers Are Important

 Here is some statistics for you:

 Perhaps one of the most relevant and more surprising findings was this: 68% of the maltreated children were maltreated by a female, whereas 48% were maltreated by a male. (Some children were maltreated by both.) Of children maltreated by biological parents, mothers maltreated the majority (75%) whereas fathers maltreated a sizable minority (43%). In contrast, male perpetrators were more common for children maltreated by nonbiological parents or parents’ partners (64%) or by other persons (75%).

This statistic is the single most illustratory piece of data proving that removing children’s biological fathers from the home is the single biggest factor in risk of abuse. This supports my assertion that fathers, the family patriarchs, have the most interest and the biggest protective effect on the lives of children. They are less likely to abuse than biological mothers and, once removed, make single mother homes an easy target for predators who are not related to the child. 

 The second point people need to understand is that mothers are the most likely to abuse or neglect children, not fathers. In 2021, about 210,746 children in the United States were abused by their mother, whereas 132,363 children were abused by their father in that year. (Source: US Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Children & Families https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2021.pdf) This is consistent with findings across all NIS data...

...Only 0.7 per 1,000 children living with two married biological parents were sexually abused, compared to 12.1 per 1,000 children living with a single parent who had an unmarried partner...  

Read the whole article over here.

Will Social Media Kill Feminism?

Here is an interesting post by VD where he links to a long article on that topic:

 More importantly, women aren’t bored any more. The rise of social media is itself going to be the end of feminism whether women choose to admit it or not. Whether feminists choose to admit it or not. One of the main drivers of women entering the work force was, let’s be honest, suburban boredom. It was one thing when women had to work in the home as much as men had to work out of the home to stay alive. It was one thing when women were able to form communities and entertain themselves with petty local drama while the men were away doing survival things… With the rise of social media, both men and women are finding new outlets for their personal needs.

Finally I don't have to feel bad about my unhealthy relationship with my smartphone any more, I'm actually restoring traditional society, lol!

Fatherhood Is Biological

 Recently I encountered a book which dealt with paternity fraud. Some 10 years ago the only people interested in this stuff were obscure male rights groups, and now they are writing bestsellers about it. Amazing, isn't it?

Of course, it was a thoroughly modern book, full of "strong career women" and the men who cook them dinner, but it still had some sort of a moral in it. And having thought it over, I came to the conclusion that what the author tried to say was: "Don't do paternity fraud. Don't even try it, because it can lead to all sorts of trouble, and even crime." As it basically happened with the book characters.

And yet, it has one of "good" female characters uttering this phrase: "fatherhood is not biological anyway."

Except, of course, it is, just like motherhood. Now before I proceed any further, I'd like to add a disclaimer that I'm not speaking about adoption. In fact, adoption is a different topic altogether. There is no deception involved, as both husband and wife agree to adopt. We still talk about "adoption parents" as opposed to just "parents" though and it's often the wife who is more keen on adopting than her husband.

The reason for this is very simple. Many men aren't so eager to invest into children who aren't theirs. In most cultures a man will want to sire sons who will then carry on his bloodline. Male heirs have always been important, and still are, except in the USA, where I read, statistics say that more people prefer daughters (not that I'm surprised really). 

Saying that fatherhood isn't biological is directly attacking fatherhood. It's also very convenient for single moms and women who divorce on a whim and exchange their children's biological fathers for a string of boyfriends (who are statistically more likely to abuse them, but who cares?) 

The male equivalent would be something like the husband getting rid of his wife's baby and substituting it with the one he had with his mistresses, then telling his wife a baby is a baby and motherhood isn't biological anyway. I guess we all realise how ridiculous it sounds. 

Luckily these times of Mother's Right are drawing to an end and we as a society have understood that fathers have rights, too. The book ends quite progressively with main character getting an equal custody with his ex-wife, something many fathers can still only dream of.