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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68329012016-07-29T06:38:42.876+10:00Oz ConservativeAn Australian traditionalist conservative siteMark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-19546662755833123872016-07-25T23:41:00.000+10:002016-07-25T23:46:43.208+10:00Is virtue signalling feminine?This a just a personal observation which may or may not hold true across the board. I've encountered several blatant "virtue signalling" episodes at work lately and they have each followed a pattern.

 Each time the initiating group has been the handful of young childless women I work with. They will suddenly raise an issue like Trump or Sonia Kruger and immediately step into group enforcement mode. What I mean by this is that if a man were to raise a political issue he might say something like "Hey, how about that Donald Trump guy?" According to his politics he may expect the others to say something negative or positive about Trump, he may even make it clear that he expects something negative or positive. But it begins with a relatively open-ended topic-raising comment.

But with the young childless women the intention from the beginning is very clearly to shut off any kind of discussion. It will be something along the lines of "Hey, what about all those dumbass Americans who support Trump. They're all stupid hicks. I've never met anyone stupid enough to support Trump. Everyone I know has basic morals." Then one of the other young childless women will pipe in enthusiastically in support and say something similar. Then another one.

The level of interest in thinking about the issue is zero. The level of interest in relating the issue to real world events is zero. The interest is, first, in signalling one's own virtue by holding to the "right" political views. But, secondly, I think it might also reflect young women enforcing social boundaries within the group and doing so in a way that I don't think would happen in an all male workplace (i.e. it is an expression of a certain kind of young female instinct to ostracise or "group patrol").

Anyway, after the young childless women have set the scene, a few of the younger apolitical men will join in, albeit more half-heartedly. So it is a case of the youngest, least invested, least experienced women leading men.

One of the difficulties in countering all this is that men like myself are more used to there being an opportunity to "make an argument" - but this is precluded by what happens at the very beginning. The expected entry point for argument never happens. What I have found works instead is not to directly oppose the virtue signalling but to simply raise for discussion something that undermines it. If the virtue signalling was "Sonia Kruger is bad/mad for raising concerns about Muslim immigration" I'll throw in something like "Hey, did you hear what happened yesterday in ......" It immediately switches the conversation to a real world event, which then begins to allow discussion, which then allows others (usually the older staff members) to voice their ideas.

What I am doing, I suppose, is to create an entry point for discussion that the virtue signallers are doing their best to avoid.

The women with children are generally (not always) more genuinely concerned with the real world effects of politics than the childless women. I don't know if this is because they identify more with the political concerns of their husbands or because they are concerned about the future safety of their children, but the distinction does seem to be there.Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-6596664115185894682016-07-18T22:47:00.000+10:002016-07-18T22:47:11.610+10:00Melbourne Traditionalists meetingMark Moncrieff has called a meeting of the Melbourne Traditionalists for August 1st. It's an excellent chance to meet up with likeminded people and to have face to face discussions. It contributes, as well, to taking a local movement to the next level, so I'd encourage interested and sympathetic readers to come along. For further details read here.Mark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-28356901098721031772016-07-18T22:28:00.003+10:002016-07-18T22:59:07.383+10:00Sonia Kruger takes a standSonia Kruger is a popular media personality here in Australia. She was invited to debate the issue of whether Muslim immigration increases the risk of terror attacks. She courageously answered yes. The following video doesn't take long to watch and Sonia Kruger defends her position ably:

Update: Ben Fordham has spoken out in support of Sonia Kruger:

This afternoon, television and radio presenter Ben Fordham spoke out in support of his colleague, saying he would "rather be honest than popular".

"I think Sonia Kruger should be congratulated first and foremost for speaking her mind and not worrying about what everyone is going to say about her for speaking her mind," he said on his 2GB Drive program.

"And I think she'd be surprised if she knew how many people in Australia agree with her.

"While an outright ban on Muslim immigration might sound extreme, that's where we'll be headed if we have more terror attacks because of radical Islam."
Mark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-54937777330040772952016-07-18T22:06:00.001+10:002016-07-18T22:41:20.341+10:00Drew Barrymore 2So Drew Barrymore files for divorce from husband Will Kopelman. They then issue a media release announcing "Sadly our family is separating legally, although we do not feel this takes away from us being a family."

I asked my readers what could lie behind the seemingly odd view that divorce "does not take away from us being a family". I received several excellent replies, but I'd like to focus on the first one, which argued that it was a classic case of women pursuing a strategy of alpha sex and "betabux".

These are red pill concepts, and I think there's something to it, though I'd modify the argument. The idea is that it is in the nature of women to want sex with alpha men but then to want provisioning and security from beta men, i.e. alpha sex and beta money. At red pill sites it is often argued that women will purse alpha sex until they are near to "hitting the wall" at which point they will settle and seek to marry a beta man for his money.

The connection to Drew Barrymore is the suggestion that she is trying to have it both ways: that she wants to do the family thing with beta man Will Kopelman, whilst still being free to pursue sex with alpha males.

What is true in this, from what I can tell anyway, is that women are strongly conflicted between their sexual drives and their desire for family and security. Their sexual drives flow most freely with men who are perceived to be untamed, undomesticated, fun (or perhaps dangerous) types who are there just for sex. The men they want for family duty are the stable, loving, trustworthy, reliable types, but with these men sex is for leverage (it is transactional) and sometimes women will not have sexual feelings towards these men (or worse yet they may feel repulsion). And yet women do want these men, at a particular point in their lives, for establishing a family.

It's a pity, I think, that the red pill sites use the terms alpha and beta the way they do. It assumes that the player type men, the ones women identify as being there just for sex, are the superior men. But that's not always so. A woman might see a psychologically muddled no-hoper as being a man she would never consider as a beta provisioner, but if he can thug it up a bit (even in looks), or appear a little cool, or even come across as risky and dramatic, she might see put him in the "there for sex" category. On the other hand, the man who is emotionally open to a loving relationship, able to hold down a good job, good father material, and loyal might objectively be superior in character but the very fact that he presents himself for the domestic role can flick a "beta switch" in women from which there is no coming back.

I have no idea of what Will Kopelman is like as a person, but if you look at photos he is tall and handsome and fashionably dressed, and he has a high status job (art consultant), is wealthy and comes from a high social class. And yet in red pill terms he is "beta". I suspect that once he is divorced he will suddenly look very alpha to a lot of women.

At red pill sites there is a term "alpha widow". It refers to a woman who has bedded many men (the alpha men) and who then settles for a beta provisioner (betabux) but can't form a loyal attachment to him because she still pines for one of her past alpha lovers. The thing is, though, that I have known women whom you might term "beta widows" - they divorce a husband and after a relatively short period of time try to replace him with a replica of what they once had. They were not attracted to him for the reason that they were married to him not because he lacked attractive qualities as a man.

Marriage, it seems, puts men at a great disadvantage when it comes to holding the attraction of women. It means that men have given away all the commitment they have to offer; that they cannot appear attractively aloof when they have so much to lose in the event of the wife leaving; that they will appear unattractively domesticated; that they will have to offer comfort and security rather than danger, fun and risk; and that just by virtue of being the loyal provisioner they will be cast in the beta role in their wife's mind.

A society that values marriage is going to have to bolster the position of married men. It is going to have to give married men a boost to their power and status compared to the unmarried guy in the band. It is going to have to grant to married men resources that a woman cannot get anywhere else except by being married (or perhaps through her own hard, lifelong labour).

I'm not sure, but it is possible that marriage can only survive in a patriarchal culture, by which I mean a culture in which fathers are the spiritual, moral and legal heads of the family, and in which this paternal leadership and authority is felt within the daily life and culture of the family. If not, women will tend to identify married men with a powerlessness that they can live with platonically happily enough, and will sometimes endure for the sake of the children, but that will have them looking elsewhere for sexual fulfilment.Mark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-41270806376801747242016-07-17T19:44:00.002+10:002016-07-17T19:45:19.171+10:00"We do not feel this takes away from us being a family"The American actress Drew Barrymore has filed for divorce from her husband Will Kopelman with whom she has two young daughters. Announcing the divorce, the couple wrote in a press release that:

Sadly our family is separating legally, although we do not feel this takes away from us being a family.

I have heard this before - the claim that after divorce you are all still a family just like before, that nothing significant changes. And I really don't understand the mentality behind it - maybe readers can suggest to me what is going through a person's mind who says something like this.

After all, a divorce dissolves a family. It means that a father and mother no longer live together; they are likely to go off and find other partners and form households with them; it means that the unique little community that a family once was no longer exists.

I can only think that some people are beginning to separate in their minds, as two different things, the raising of children platonically with the children's father/mother and the pursuit of romantic and sexual fulfilment with someone else. In other words, family is something you do separately to the pursuit of romantic and sexual fulfilment. If you are comfortable with this idea, then perhaps you might well think of 'separate household families' as being part of a normal family life.

I don't really know if this is what is happening, I'm just speculating. But when I read the quote "Sadly our family is separating legally, although we do not feel this takes away from us being a family" I am still struck by it. Divorce does not take away from you being a family? Then does marriage have nothing to do with family? Does growing up together in a family unit have nothing to do with being a family? Mark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-73983908886477198512016-07-14T11:38:00.000+10:002016-07-14T11:40:39.743+10:00Why feminism is evil 2Most people will be aware of the feminist insistence that we in the West live in a "rape culture". You might think that this would make feminists angry at men who rape or molest women. But that's not quite true. Sweden and Germany have recently experienced a wave of rape, molestation and sexual harassment of women in public swimming pools, at train stations, and at music concerts, sometimes by large groups of men, but feminists are not really up in arms about this. Why? Because the attackers are not white men, but immigrants from North Africa and the Middle-East. In fact, a Swedish feminist politician, Barbro Sörman, has tweeted that it is worse when Swedish men rape than when immigrant men do, because Swedish men do it as an "active choice".

What feminism is directed at is not so much opposing men but more pointedly at the defeat of one's own men. White feminists are seeking the defeat of white men (if you believe I am overstating this you need to read the twitter feeds of some prominent feminists - they do not hide their intentions, they nearly always specify white men as the group they are trying to bring down).

One purpose of this is, I believe, to disrupt the normal processes of heterosexual bonding between men and women. A person who no longer sees goodness or worthiness in the opposite sex is far less likely to feel the deeper and more enduring kind of love for a member of the opposite sex and is therefore less likely to make a commitment to marriage or family.

The constant feminist denigration of men as hostile attackers of women is one way of disrupting this bonding between men and women. It severs the natural sense of a larger loyalty between the men and women of a society, the sense of men and women united together for the benefit of a family, community or nation.

There is another aspect of the way that heterosexuality works that feminism disrupts. Young men and women usually have a sense of the finer qualities of the opposite sex that draws out admiration and love. It is not that a young man suddenly finds the unique qualities of just one woman something to love - if that were the case he might just as easily fall in love with a man. Instead, he sees something fine within womanhood, and he looks for a woman who embodies these qualities. Sometimes, young men and women idealise the better qualities of the opposite sex as part of this process.

Traditionally men would perceive a kind of delicacy of beauty and goodness in women ("loveliness") that might be felt as something transcendent (hence much Western art and culture).

How can young women come to a sense of a transcendent ideal of manhood if they are brought up on the idea of men as a hostile, violent enemy to women? And if men have a sense of women as the ideological, political enemy, then the feminine ideal is likely to be lost as well. And with it part of the bonding process.

(I know that red pillers might point out that this allows men to recognise more clearly the flaws within female nature, which is no doubt true, but what a traditional society is focused on is strengthening the path to family formation and encouraging the loves and commitments associated with family life.)

A healthy society would not allow men and women to be set apart into hostile camps, as we can see happening under the influence of feminism. It would allow the discussion of issues relating to men and women, but would not permit the institutionalisation of feminism as a state backed political movement. It would promote culture that displayed the higher expressions of manhood and womanhood, as an aid to the bonding process between men and women, alongside realistic portrayals of marriage and family life - but would not allow culture to be dominated by expressions of gender war. It would encourage a communal identity, giving a common identity and purpose to the men and women of a society. It might, as well, encourage small, mutual courtesies between men and women, as expressions of good will between the sexes.

We have to learn from what has gone wrong in the West, and one lesson is that feminism cannot be given free rein to disrupt the relations between the sexes. What kind of future is there, as this hardening into oppositional forces continues?Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-56074406793815450662016-07-10T20:24:00.001+10:002016-07-10T20:24:41.906+10:00You know the haka, but the Icelandic Viking Clap?Most people will have heard of the Maori haka but I had never before seen the Icelandic Viking Clap. After their team lost in the quarter finals of the 2016 Euro tournament, a mass gathering of Icelandic fans performed the Viking Clap - it must have been stirring to have taken part:

Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-21686974584408494162016-07-10T14:37:00.004+10:002016-07-10T14:40:53.290+10:00A richer sense of belongingI'm not sure what to make of this. Ian Tuttle is a young National Review writer, who, as you might expect, is generally an "establicon" in his politics (aka a right-liberal). His column on Brexit, though, is surprisingly good:

Liberal cosmopolitanism, regnant since the end of the Cold War, has bought completely into its own rightness. It is entirely devoted to an increasingly borderless political future carefully managed by technocrats and tempered by "compassion" and "tolerance" — all of which aims at the maximal amount of material prosperity. It sees no other alternative than that we will all, eventually, be "citizens of the world," and assumes that everyone will be happier that way.

It's not unreasonable to think otherwise. Anti-EU movements and renewed nationalism in the United States are on the rise precisely because they offer alternatives to this self-assured order. It's not clear whether a United Kingdom withdrawn from the EU will be better off. But it's entirely defensible to think that it might be. Likewise, it's not unreasonable to prefer loyalties rooted in close-knit interactions among people who share a particular space and a particular history. Or to prefer local rule to government outsourced to distant bureaucracies. Or to prefer a richer sense of belonging than interaction in a common market. There are alternatives to a transnational super-state that are not fascism.

The inability of our political leaders to envision political futures other than the one to which they are wedded has facilitated the polarization, and the unresponsiveness, of our politics. That people are now looking for alternatives is, in fact, entirely reasonable.

This is not what you'd generally expect from a right-liberal. Right-liberals want a liberal society to be regulated by the market rather than by bureaucracy. Tuttle is making a criticism of both options in his post, as leaving out too much.

 Perhaps there are some on the establishment right who see that the world order being created is a heavily bureaucratic, stifling one and so prefer the national option to be preserved and who can see that "market participation" is not a sufficient argument for preserving national existence (markets, after all, can easily be transnational).

 Tuttle therefore makes an argument for local (i.e. national) loyalties and government. Tuttle is a right-liberal so I do not believe he supports ethnonationalism, but his argument for local loyalties does at least overlap with an argument for ties of ethnicity ("loyalties rooted in close-knit interactions among people who share a particular space and a particular history"..."a richer sense of belonging than interaction in a common market").Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-82519124768089383572016-07-05T12:24:00.000+10:002016-07-06T09:31:14.352+10:00So now Christians can't mingle?A court in California has approved a settlement of a discrimination case brought by two homosexual men against a Christian dating site. The owner of the dating site, Christian Mingle, has agreed that the site will no longer ask users to click either "man seeking woman" or "woman seeking man". The website will now only ask users to click on whether they are male or female, not which sex they are seeking.

The case demonstrates clearly how liberal claims to tolerance and neutrality simply don't work in practice. Christians and homosexuals aren't left each to their own under the terms of liberalism - Christians are being required to cease being orthodox Christians.

You can see as well what a liberal society is going to require from its citizens. The future liberal citizen, in order to function in the public square, will have to hold to no substantive identity or moral code, but be committed to neutral attitudes and functions, such as market activity and consumption. There is a process by which individuals are squeezed toward this outcome, because that is what is required of them by the rules of the society they live in.

A future "Christian" for instance, to avoid social marginalisation, is going to have to believe that all forms of sexual expression are equally worthy/valid, which then becomes a positive belief that sexuality is contentless in the moral sense, merely whatever the individual makes of it. Christians are going to have to move toward the "empty world" assumptions that liberalism is based on.

And it won't stop with sexuality. Surely it will only take a transsexual to complain about people being given the options of "male" and "female" at a dating site and this too will be considered discriminatory.

Christians should stop trying to fit in with liberalism, and recognise how incompatible liberalism is with a belief in anything substantive.

P.S. I've just read another news item on this story. It includes a statement from the homosexual men's lawyers which illustrates the kind of mentality that fits within a liberal society:

"I am gratified that we were able to work with Spark to help ensure that people can fully participate in all the diverse market places that make our country so special, regardless of their sexual orientation," Vineet Dubey, one of the plaintiff's attorneys, said in a statement to the Journal.

Liberal America is special because people "can fully participate in all the diverse market places"? I don't think so, but it might be true that participating in diverse market places is one of the few things that fits in well with the liberal framework of society, i.e. that is sufficiently contentless. Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-42046914906294466742016-07-04T23:51:00.000+10:002016-07-05T00:00:26.657+10:00The power of sexual surrender 2This is the second part of my review of Marie Robinson's The Power of Sexual Surrender (part 1 here).

 Chapter 4 begins with the observation that sexual frigidity in women is often connected to what Marie Robinson calls "personality distortions" in which there is a misunderstanding of reality and in which blame for one's own failures is externalised.

 Robinson then goes on to explain different types of frigidity. She includes women who are able to orgasm normally, but who are psychologically unable to build relationships with men and who therefore usually live promiscuously.

Chapter 5 is an attempt to explain why frigidity should have become such an issue. Part of Marie Robinson's argument is an historical one. She argues that prior to industrialisation most men and women worked together as part of a cooperative effort based in the family home. Industrialisation sent the men off to work elsewhere, the children off to school; and outsourced much of the productive work traditionally undertaken by women, meaning that the family home was no longer the centre of all life as it had once been, meaning that a wife was no longer at the centre of all life as she had once been, no longer as profoundly needed in her social role:

As a woman she was profoundly needed, and as a woman reared to respond to this need she had no single occasion to question her worth or her abilities. And then one by one, slowly but surely, her responsibilities and her duties were removed from her; her close and equal working relationship with her husband was destroyed; her importance to her children was diminished sadly.

It's a reasonable argument. It is certainly true that feminism took off as a mass movement after the Industrial Revolution, though it seems to have been accepted most quickly in frontier/homestead states in Australia and the U.S. where women's work at home was still crucially important. An alternative argument is that it was only when the Industrial Revolution had created a significant economic surplus that some women turned more confidently against men, who formerly played a more critical and necessary role as their providers.

How did women react to their new situation? Not well, according to Marie Robinson:

Very slowly, too, but everywhere, women woke as if from a centuries-old dream of peace and happiness to find themselves dispossessed. Gone was their central place in the family home, gone their economic importance, gone their close working partnership with their mate, their functions of teacher and moral guide to the children. The child himself was gone, to school, as the husband had gone to the mill or factory.

Yes, she was dispossessed, dispossessed of all those things that for centuries had defined her womanhood for her, that had supported her ego, given her the certain knowledge that being a woman, however hard, was a wonderous and most desirable thing. She felt her womanhood itself devalued, the things it represented unwanted.

And then she reacted. She reacted violently and with rage at this depreciation of her feminine attributes, of her skills, of her functions. Unhappily this reaction was precisely the wrong one, the one from which no solution of a happy kind for her could be attained.

Here's what she did. Looking about, she thought she spied a villain in the piece. Who was it? None other than her partner through the centuries, man. It was he who had deserted her, who was responsible for her loss of self-respect as a woman, a mother, an equal socially and mentally and morally. He despised women. Very well, she would show him. She would simply stop being a woman. She would enter the lists and compete with him on his own level. To hell with being a women. She would be a man.

In response Marie Robinson writes:

...in so far as the feminist movement pitted itself against the male, and at the same time advised woman to masculinize herself or divest herself of her feminine nature, it was dreadfully neurotic, and we have been reaping the whirlwind this movement started ever since.

Marie Robinson next argues that one reaction of Victorian era women to their loss of traditional role was, in a kind of revenge move, to deny their sexuality. This then meant that twentieth century women inherited a toxic culture from their nineteenth century foremothers:

This, then, is the heritage of woman today: On the one hand, from Victorian woman, a profound belief that she is and should be non-sexual, frigid, by natural law. On the other hand, from the feminists, that man is Woman's natural enemy, that she should drop her femininity altogether, oppose man, supersede him, become him.

The feminist view became the dominant one after WWI:

The flapper of the 1920's represented the unintended flower of the feminist philosophy of life, its definition of what constituted womanhood. As we know, the flapper was a caricature of woman, a cheap and shoddy imitation of the opposite sex, a second-class man. Happily, she did not survive as a conscious national ideal, but the philosophy that created her did survive. The depreciation of the goals of femininity, biological and psychological, became part and parcel of the education of millions of American girls. Homemaking, childbearing and rearing, cooking, the virtues of patience, lovingness, givingness in marriage have been systematically devalued. The life of male achievement has been substituted for the life of female achievement. The feminist-Victorian antagonism toward men has survived too. It has been handed down from mother to daughter in an unbroken line for so many years now that, to millions of women, hostility toward the opposite sex seems almost a natural law. Though many a modern woman may pay lip service to the ideal of a passionate and productive marriage to a man, underneath she deeply resents her role, conceives of the male as fundamentally hostile to her, as an exploiter of her. She wishes in her deepest heart, and often without the slightest awareness of the fact, to supplant him, to exchange roles with him. She learned this attitude at her mother's knee or imbibed it with her formula. Little that she learns elsewhere counteracts it with any great effectiveness.

Clearly, then, if this is the historical direction women have taken, the individual woman who wishes to become a real woman must change this direction. This she can do only by taking thought, long thought. For among the women around her she will not necessarily find too much support for her wish to be entirely feminine.

For one hundred and fifty years now women have blamed their problems on the outside world. They have used the very real difliculties created by revolutionary social changes to avoid the task of looking within for the real problem and the real solution. They have indulged in an orgy of finger-pointing and self-pity. If the results had been different, if this attitude had brought them happiness and fulfillment, if feminism and Victorianism had made them good mothers and joyful wives, or even pleased them with their new place in industry, the game might have been worth the candle. But it hasn't been. The game has brought frigidity and restlessness and a soaring divorce rate, neurosis, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency—-all that results when the woman in any society deserts her true function.

Would you have expected this to have been written in 1958? It is a reminder of the influence of the long first-wave of feminism in the West. Even in 1958, Marie Robinson believed that many women had been brought up to see men as a hostile enemy and to resent a feminine role in society. Little wonder that second-wave feminism loomed on the horizon. Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-35679537226220142622016-07-04T00:20:00.000+10:002016-07-04T00:25:55.050+10:00Crossing the bridge to womanhoodI have just finished reading an impressive book. It was published in 1958 and written by a female psychiatrist, Marie Robinson (Nyswander).

Called The Power of Sexual Surrender it is a book that sets out to explain frigidity in women and in doing so discusses the specific ways that some women fail to arrive at a mature womanhood.

It is not the perfect book. It is overly "scientistic" at times; its Freudian framework is questionable; and a few of its claims now seem either dated or wrong.

Its great strength, though, is that it deals unflinchingly with the specific ways that psychological and emotional immaturity in women is expressed in relationships with men. It comes across as extraordinarily "red pill" for 1958. It is one of the most quotable books that I have ever read.

I don't think I'm going to be able to review the book adequately in a single post, so I'll set the scene with this post and leave the meatiest part of the book for next time.

I'll begin by quoting this:

women today have, beyond the shadow of any doubt, achieved complete equality with men.

In 1958 not only did Marie Robinson not feel oppressed, she felt that she was living in a society where she was completely equal with men. Not how 1958 is usually portrayed.

She then notes that the Victorian era view that women were asexual had been overcome, but that something like 40% of women were unable to benefit from this in terms of enjoying marital love because of some degree of frigidity.

Marie Robinson does not use the term frigidity as we usually do. For her, the frigid woman has "learned to fear physical love." She writes:

The reasons for her fear are hidden from her, are locked in her unconscious mind. Consciously she may wish, above all things, to achieve real closeness with her husband, to give and receive the greatest of all mutual joys between man and woman, sexual gratification. But she has not the capacity to receive this joy.

There is a lesson here for men. It is possible for a woman to consciously strive to be open to physical love, to read books about how to achieve it, to go and see someone like Marie Robinson to discuss her problem, whilst the real, underlying reasons for her problem don't come to the surface.

According to Marie Robinson, frigidity in a woman is the result of something going wrong in a girl's development, which then leaves her immature:

When all goes well in the development of the young girl, both her personality and her sexual passions will flower, she will achieve a beautiful and integrated maturity. But if, as so often happens, thwarting or blighting experiences take place, the development of her personality and her sexuality will be frozen at their sources, and maturity will remain a never-never land whose very existence she will come to doubt.

If she wishes to resume her growth she must...insist, deep within herself, on achieving that true and passional relatedness with her man for which there is neither simulacrum nor substitute in woman's journey through life.

In chapter 3 of her book, Marie Robinson begins to challenge her readers. Even in 1958, she had female clients who had been raised to have a negative view of both men and womanhood. She tells the story of a successful female lawyer who came to see her:

Her father had died when she was an infant and her mother had been a militant leader of the movement for women's "rights." The whole emphasis in her early upbringing had been on achievement in the male world, and in the male sense of the word. She had been taught to be competitive with men, to look upon them as basically inimical to women. Women were portrayed as an exploited and badly put upon minority class. Marriage, childbearing, and love were traps that placed one in the hands of the enemy, man, whose chief desire was to enslave woman. Her mother had profoundly inculcated in her the belief that women were to work in the market place at all cost, to be aggressive, to take love (a la Russe) where they found it, and to be tied down by nothing, no one; no more, as her mother put it, than a man is. Such a definition of the normal had, of course, made her fearful of a real or deep or enduring relationship with a man. For years she sedulously avoided men entirely. Gradually, though her grown-up experiences, she learned of other values, but by the time the right man came along it was too late to have children.

Marie Robinson felt that she had to oppose the "defensive and self-destructive" feminist view with a portrait of what a more normally developed woman is like:

Deep inside herself she feels profoundly secure, safe, both with herself and with her husband. She is very, very glad to be a woman, with all the duties, responsibilities, and joys it entails. She can't imagine what it would be like to be a man and has no interest in imagining it as a possible role for herself. She feels that the very existence of her husband makes the world safe for her. This sense of reality almost invariably leads her to select a husband who is good for her...Of course marrying a good husband adds to her sense of "at-homeness" in the world. Related to this feeling in her, to her sense of security, seeming almost to spring from it, indeed, is a profound delight in giving to those she loves. Psychiatrists, who consider this characteristic the hallmark, the sine qua non, of the truly feminine character, have a name for it: they call it "essential feminine altruism." The finest flower of this altruism blossoms in her joy in giving the very best of herself to her husband and to her children. She never resents this need in herself to give; she never interprets its manifestations as a burden to her, an imposition on her. It pervades her nature as the color green pervades the countryside in the spring, and she is proud of it and delights in it. It is this altruism, this givingness, that motivates her to keep her equilibrum, to hold onto her joie de vivre despite whatever may befall. It stands her in marvelous stead for all the demands that life is going to make on her—and they will be considerable. When a woman does not have this instinctually based altruism available to her, or when she denies that it is a desirable trait, life's continuous small misfortunes leave her in a glowering rage, helpless and beside herself with self-pity.

I will only say of this that I have known women who had this quality of giving themselves to others who, just as Marie Robinson describes it, were also more secure in themselves than other women, more active and more resilient.

 Marie Robinson's fully natured woman is also definitely a sexual person who enjoys the sexual relationship with her husband but who is not attracted to infidelity:

One woman put it this way to me: "I like other men; if they're attractive," she said. "Their attractiveness does honor to the sex my husband belongs to."

She has a lot more to say about her ideal of womanhood, but I'll leave it there for now. The best parts of the book are yet to come. If you'd like to read it yourself, there is a free pdf here.Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-42229737357230678632016-06-30T19:57:00.001+10:002016-06-30T19:57:06.131+10:00Who is the most privileged in America?From Happy Acres, a graph showing income by race in the U.S:

I don't want to get into an oppression Olympics with Asians - the data is interesting because it undercuts the SJW "white privilege" narrative.Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-32025171778864292132016-06-30T13:30:00.000+10:002016-06-30T13:30:06.698+10:00Explaining the Orlando reactionI wrote a post recently on the reaction of homosexuals to the Orlando massacre. Despite the gunman being a Muslim linked to ISIS, the initial reaction of many homosexuals was to express hostility toward white Christians.

Over at The Orthosphere, Richard Cocks has a post addressing this phenomenon. At one point in his post he writes:

As I've mentioned elsewhere, most of my students think that the greater horror they can "tolerate" the better people they are...

This reminded me of Lawrence Auster's First Law of Majority-Minority Relations in a Liberal Society. This Law (he was writing about a decade ago) he defined as follows:

The more troublesome, unassimilable, or dangerous a designated minority or non-Western group actually is, the more favorably it is treated. This undeserved favorable treatment of a troublesome or misbehaving group can take numerous forms, including celebrating the group, giving the group greater rights and privileges, covering up the group's crimes and dysfunctions, attacking the group's critics as racists, and blaming the group's bad behavior on white racism.

It's possible that what Richard Cocks observed amongst his students goes some way to explaining Auster's Law. If you believe that the worse the behaviour you can tolerate the better a person you are, then the more dangerously a minority group behaves the more you will deflect blame from the group, preferring to target the majority instead. This is what homosexual liberals did after Orlando: they proved their commitment to tolerance (meaning a willingness to tolerate the "other") by stridently attacking the mainstream.

Why would a liberal society develop along these lines? It flows logically from liberal first principles.

If you think there is nothing of inherent worth external to the individual, then what matters is the act of autonomous will in self-determining one's own subjective, self-created values. The important thing is the freedom to self-determine (the choices themselves don't really matter, rather it is the unencumbered act of choosing that brings value).

But if this is a value for me then it must be so for others too. So there must be a system within which I get to have my autonomous choice respected, whilst at the same time I respect the choices of others. This then generates a liberal morality, despite the liberal starting point of believing that there is nothing of objective value existing as part of the nature of things.

The liberal morality is based on the idea of non-interference in autonomous choice making, and this makes qualities such as respect, openness, non-discrimination, non-judgementalism and tolerance key moral terms in a liberal society. Therefore, the more tolerant you are, by the standards of a liberal morality, the better a person you are.

Of course, if you are thought to violate the principles of tolerance, then you won't be tolerated but instead attacked for bigotry, discrimination, racism, sexism, homophobia and so on. And it is easy to violate the principles of liberal tolerance, because once you assert that there is any objective truth for people to be guided by, or non-liberal institutions or traditions for people to love and identify with, then you are violating liberal first principles (particularly if you assert any of these as public, rather than as merely private, goods.)

I know this gets complex in the end. Liberals end up supporting a less tolerant religion rather than a more tolerant one in the name of tolerance. But there is a kind of logic to it, if you accept the liberal starting point. If being tolerant is what makes you a good person morally, then you demonstrate this by being willing to tolerate in your society the most challenging "other" group and explaining their wrongdoing on the faults of your own society or tradition.Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-54539438647171616202016-06-29T18:01:00.001+10:002016-06-29T18:12:02.312+10:00Australian elections: who to vote forI've never experienced an election campaign that has so failed to ignite any interest amongst the electorate. None of my work colleagues have spoken about it once, nor is it featuring on social media. It's a terrible situation in the sense that there is nobody rocking the boat at all. The left-liberal vs right-liberal cosy, comfortable orthodoxy is very much alive and well in Australia. Real political interest lies overseas.

 So who might a traditionalist vote for in these elections? I'm happy for readers to discuss this in the comments. In my seat, there is no-one at all to vote for in the House of Representatives, so that is a non-issue. In the Senate there is at least some choice. Here in Victoria, I think the best option might be to vote for Georgia Nicholls of the Sustainable Australia Party. They have been running some well produced TV ads, arguing the case for lower immigration. They are by no means a traditionalist party, but at least we can support them in their aim of lowering immigration from 200,000 per year back to 70,000. Here is a video they have produced:

South Australian readers might like to consider voting for Senator Cory Bernardi. Mark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-46270959068022222592016-06-29T17:13:00.001+10:002016-06-30T12:01:22.507+10:00Why feminism is evil 1A thought. I'm sure most men have experienced in their lives a strong feeling of desire for a woman, such that he wished to possess that woman in mind, body and soul. In sex a man sometimes feels this instinct to possess. The counterpoint for a woman is to give herself, to yield, to belong. But to do this she must see the man as worthy of her. And, more than this, in giving way she makes herself vulnerable and therefore there must be trust.

 Does feminism promote trust between men and women? I don't think so. Feminism urges women to believe that we live in a rape culture; that domestic violence is widespread amongst all social classes, with men always being the perpetrators; that men go out to work to keep women down; that women must be independent of men; that men and women are locked in a political contest for power and status; that women are oppressed on all measures for the benefit of men and so on.

 How can young women raised in these beliefs trust men? And if women cannot trust men, then how can they "let go" in relationship with a man? One part of the relationship dynamic between men and women is then lost. One aspect of the feminine is then lost. Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-28711008851547037802016-06-28T20:48:00.002+10:002016-06-28T20:56:56.865+10:00Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies on modern politicsWelsh actor John Rhys-Davies has given an interview in which he clearly steps outside the usual narrative:

In the past you have called Britain "pretty morally vacuous". Are there discussions that as a society we're just not having?
That's exactly it. We have such intellectually inadequate leaders that you just wince. Cameron, Brown and Blair must be the least qualified men to govern a country that we've had in 200 years. When you look at a politician, the first question you should ask is, does this man love his people? Will this man put his country first? That's not the only quality we want, but the really successful politicians of our time – Putin, Salmond – are people who actually do put their countries first.

 Benedict Cumberbatch was among nearly 300 arts figures who have publicly backed remaining in the EU. Why should people listen to what actors have to say?.
 They shouldn't necessarily. Every actor has a right to his opinion; they [Cumberbatch & co] are, of course, completely wrong. Their generation has been brought up without a sense of national identity. They have lived protected in the world. The world is at a more dangerous time now than it's been since I was doing my Cambridge entrance exams in Cuba week. We have a desperately inadequate American president and he has allowed the wolves to get strong, and now the wolves are gathering.

Hat tip: Traditional Britain Group Mark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-79739125699387060282016-06-28T20:02:00.002+10:002016-06-28T20:10:15.812+10:00A Frenchman thanks the EnglishThere's an interesting post up at Gallia Watch. A French businessman and Paris councillor, Charles Beigbeder, has praised the Brexit result. Here is an abridged version of what he had to say (he begins by serving it up to the EU elite):

Cursed be the promoters of undifferentiated cultures and standardization of life styles. They will be forced to accept the praise of uniqueness that leads a people to refuse being blended into an amorphous mass in which it will feel the loss of its identity to the benefit of a multiculturalist destroyer;

Cursed be the believers in the progress of history, for whom European nations will sooner or later be led to dissolve into an ever more vast melting pot, mixing together peoples and cultures. At last they will understand that the economy cannot be the primary foundation of social ties, and that if there exists a European identity, there is not, as of today, a European nation or people;

Cursed be the no-borders ideologues who wish to knock down the borders of nation-States. They will learn that in times of migratory turbulence such as the one Europe is currently experiencing, it is better for a sovereign State to control its borders, lest the country become a sieve;

And blessed today are Her Majesty's subjects, who have given to all of Europe a tremendous lesson in democracy…This proud and subtle people, rooted in its traditions and enamored of freedom, has not finished surprising us.

Englishmen, thank you!

Charles Beigbeder

Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-92122815604666356632016-06-28T00:03:00.003+10:002016-06-28T00:04:23.404+10:00Petition to stop the demonisation of Australian menThere is a domestic violence campaign running in Australia at the moment which, despite all evidence to the contrary, continues to portray men alone as the perpetrators of violence. There is a petition running at change.org which asks the Australian government to run these campaigns more fairly, in a way that does not single out and demonise men. It's worth supporting. Link below.

 https://www.change.org/p/australian-government-stop-the-demonisation-of-menMark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-60337514217848429822016-06-25T19:17:00.000+10:002016-06-25T19:18:58.834+10:00Trump on BrexitI hope to write a few posts in coming days on the Brexit win. I thought, though, that I would begin with Donald Trump. His reaction to the winning vote is further evidence, I believe, that he is not just another right-liberal Republican. Read it and see if you agree:

The people of the United Kingdom have exercised the sacred right of all free peoples.

They have declared their independence from the European Union, and have voted to reassert control over their own politics, borders and economy.

A Trump Administration pledges to strengthen our ties with a free and independent Britain, deepening our bonds in commerce, culture and mutual defense.

The whole world is more peaceful and stable when our two countries – and our two peoples – are united together, as they will be under a Trump Administration.

Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first.

They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people.

I hope America is watching, it will soon be time to believe in America again.

He also posted the following messages on Twitter:

On the national issue, at least, Trump is pulling political debate back in the right direction. It seems to me that there are two fields of politics. There is the field you operate in at a more purist level, where you try to articulate your politics in a logical and principled way and clearly distinguish your politics from the competition. Then there is the field where you don't necessarily expect your own purist vision to be fully implemented, but instead you join in a struggle to pull things in society your own way.

The two fields don't run counter to each other. The more that you try to build up a stronger, purer principled movement, the more weight you have in drawing things your own way. And the more you succeed in bringing the centre toward your own politics, the more success you are likely to have in building your more purist movement.

So we shouldn't look at Trump just through purist eyes, but at what his effect on the larger political climate is likely to be. I might be wrong, but I think he will shake it up, open it up, in a good way. I think he will unsettle the right-liberal hold over the Republican Party, open up debate on the national issue, and even perhaps (as suggested above) reconfigure international alliances in an interesting way.

In the meantime, our task remains the same - to develop a principled political movement that can be one part of those forces pulling the larger political culture in our direction.Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-61347593227322943162016-06-23T21:32:00.001+10:002016-06-23T21:36:08.607+10:00What Western man was doing in the 1240sThis is the interior of Sainte Chapelle, a chapel built in the 1240s for the kings of France:

Here's another view:

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Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-73454287211081265732016-06-22T22:58:00.000+10:002016-06-22T23:06:51.986+10:00Well, I rememberFound this on the net:

Not that things were perfect when I was growing up, but there was still a sense in the culture that Australian men had shown strength and courage as settlers, as soldiers and in sports. It was a positive identity.

And there was still a sense of an "us" when it came to men and women. We seem to be sliding ever further along the line of women seeing men, their own men, as being the opposition, the ones they have to dethrone.

One positive development is that numbers of young Western men are going back to trying to develop their strengths "parallel" to their relationships with women, i.e. they are doing it regardless of what their relationship with women happens to be. Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-55516140696347091032016-06-21T22:21:00.000+10:002016-06-21T22:24:24.195+10:00Terry McCrann on BrexitTerry McCrann is a leading business commentator here in Australia, with a regular column for the mass circulation Herald Sun. In today's column (hidden behind a paywall), he gives his view on the referendum in Britain on leaving the EU.

In short, he believes that Britain should leave. Why? First, he thinks that Britain is better off without the expensive Brussels gravy train:

Goodness, gracious me, if enough countries decide to walk away from paying out the billions to tens of thousands of Brussels bureacrats, who knows where that might end? Who knows which teat might run dry next?

He then looks at the claim that Brexit will cause the markets to fall. It is his opinion that unless people deliberately talk themselves into scaring the markets, a market fall following Brexit needn't happen, and even if the scare tactics do have this effect, it will be short lived and the markets will bounce back.

He believes that Brexit will ultimately be good for the British economy, by liberating it:

That opportunity would be leveraged by the fact that exiting Europe would in substance be hugely beneficial economically and financially for the UK and especially England - freed from the oppressive overlay of not just bureaucratic Brussels, but the extortion racket that the Euro is for Germany.

Finally, Terry McCrann believes that the economic arguments are not the only reason for favouring Brexit:

The bigger point is not financial. It is the fundamental one of national and individual sovereignty - to have your individual and shared destinies decided by yourselves under law, not by foreign unelected bureaucrats and foreign governments elected by others and in some cases, by themselves.

 ...Here's a final point...It is or should be blindingly clear that exiting the EU is the only way the UK is going to regain control of its borders - to determine who and how many come to it not only from outside Europe but inside Europe as well...

 ...the British have to seize back their sovereignty from the people smugglers in Brussels and Berlin.

(Terry McCrann, "Brexit also fries brains", Herald Sun, June 21 2016) Mark Richardsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-50306825245737305942016-06-21T21:57:00.002+10:002016-07-05T12:38:22.722+10:00Interesting Herald Sun readers' surveyThe Herald Sun is the largest circulation newspaper here in Victoria. It has carried out a readers' survey for the upcoming federal election, with some interesting results. For instance:

 94% believe boats carrying asylum seekers should be turned back.
92% are against taxes being increased to further subsidise childcare costs
86% are against the introduction of a carbon tax
86% are against transgender awareness being taught in primary schools
74% are against Australia becoming a republic
64% are against legalising same sex marriage

 It shows, at least, that more people than you might imagine are able to think outside of the elite consensus.

 The same sex marriage one is interesting as this will become a big issue after the election. 71% of coalition voters are against it, despite the PM favouring it.

 It should be noted that Herald Sun readers are not a representative sample of the population at large, but even so the numbers are interesting. Mark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-84053401894909512722016-06-18T17:01:00.001+10:002016-06-18T17:09:18.285+10:00Preaching privilege one day, love and unity the nextLeftists can be more open about what they post to social media than those of us on the right. As I have quite a few leftist friends and relatives on my feed, I get to know what really interests them politically.

Generally, they are only interested in what happens in Australia and America. And their overwhelming interest lies with the idea of white male privilege. It is what I have come to call "shakedown politics". You spot something that white men have (e.g. greater representation on a board) and you roar mightily about white male privilege, because you see the chance to get something out of your activism (i.e. board places). But if 16 Yazidi women are brutally murdered by ISIS in the Middle East for refusing to become sex slaves, it doesn't even make it onto your radar.

What I noticed about leftist messaging in the run up to the Orlando massacre, was something like the following:

Day 1: All white men are privileged, give us their stuff.
Day 2: All white men are privileged, give us their stuff.
Day 3: All white men are privileged, give us their stuff.
Day 4: Muslim massacres 50 gay people at a nightclub.
Day 5: Rage at Christians, white men are just as bad as Muslim men or worse.
Day 6: Why can't we have love and unity?

Clearly, there is a blind spot in leftist politics here. They don't see that the envy/rage/hatred towards white men (ressentiment?) runs counter to calls for love and unity.

The hostility toward white men seems, if anything, to be picking up steam. You have to wonder where it will end. To give just one example, you might be aware of the sad event that occurred at a Disney resort in Florida where a young boy was taken by an alligator. A prominent white feminist from Chicago (apparently a corporate lawyer) responded by tweeting the following:

Not much love and unity on display in Brienne's comment. Mark Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-4795290827160801282016-06-16T21:37:00.002+10:002016-06-16T21:41:56.568+10:00Sending up privilege politicsGood to see a young person on the right (Hunter Avellone) serving it up like this to the SJWs:

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On Wednesday, July 27, at 8 am, dozens of activists from five regional conservation and climate activist groups are holding a "Keep It in the Ground" (KING) rally and protest of the second Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction of Payette County federal lands and minerals [1, 2]. At its Idaho State Office in Boise, the BLM plans to offer and sell leases for fossil fuel development on 9,242 acres of Sheep Ridge public lands around the producing and plugged-pending-pipelines oil and gas wells in the Big Willow Creek area seven miles north of New Plymouth [3, 4].
This protest contributes toward a growing, nationwide Keep It in the Ground movement concerned about the climate warming and environmental destruction caused by ongoing fossil fuel extraction and consumption. KING coalition organizations, such as the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, and the Sierra Club, are urging President Obama to expand his climate legacy by stopping new oil and gas leases on public lands, just as he did with coal leases. On June 18, 2016, in Yosemite National Park, the president said that the greatest threat to all national parks is climate change.
Groups across the western U.S. are planning similar "Keep It in the Ground" rallies for upcoming lease sales, like the one in Roswell, New Mexico, that the BLM has postponed, and past demonstrations in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Reno, Nevada. The organizations co-sponsoring the rally and protest in Boise on July 27 include Citizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Idaho Chapter Sierra Club, Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction, and Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT).
Educating the public about and confronting southwest Idaho oil and gas development throughout our five years, WIRT members are grateful and relieved to work with other groups joining the too-few activists under great duress at three previous auctions of public lands and minerals since April 2014 [5-10]. We encourage you to accompany us on the frontlines of public lands liquidation to the oil and gas industry, at this fourth oil and gas lease auction protest in Boise. If you can carpool to and from Boise with other north Idaho activists for this significant demonstration, please contact WIRT by email, phone, or facebook message.
Concerned Idahoans are standing up for their rights on Wednesday, July 27, and telling the BLM that public lands in Idaho are not for sale to dangerous extractive industries overrunning our beautiful state. Bring your soft signs, banners, and enthusiasm, and meet at 8 am MDT at the southwest corner of the Walmart parking lot, close to Burger King, near West Overland Road and South Vinnell Way in Boise.
Participants will cross Vinnell to the BLM Idaho State Office at 1387 South Vinnell Way (on the left, to the south). The oil and gas lease auction in the Sagebrush Conference Room begins at 9 am and will likely conclude by 12 noon. Entering this government building requires presenting photo identification and signing in for the auction (and action!). Continue reading
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The Wednesday, July 20, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features news about Spokane and Vancouver, Washington bans and fines of fossil fuel transportation and infrastructure, a federal settlement with six Tesoro refineries to reduce air pollution emissions and violations, resistance to southwest Idaho oil and gas development and a federal lease auction, and other topics. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
#StopOilTrains in Idaho Week of Action Report
On July 9 to 12, three north Idaho climate activist groups staged four events for the #StopOilTrains in Idaho Week of Action, joining thousands of people in continent-wide commemorations of the three-year anniversary of 47 lives lost to a Bakken crude oil train derailment, explosive fire, and lake spill in downtown Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on July 6, 2013 [1 photos, 2-6]. Their successful actions encouraged and enhanced frontline vigilance and resistance to volatile, climate-wrecking oil trains traversing the Idaho Panhandle on Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) and Union Pacific rail lines, from the Alberta tar sands and fracked Bakken shale fields to West Coast refineries, power plants, and ports.
Under rainy skies on Saturday morning, July 9, seven community members attended a social gathering hosted by 350Sandpoint in City Beach Park in Sandpoint. Participants stood around a table under a pavilion tent, networked, and distributed relevant information about climate change issues addressed by various, allied, local groups. Focused on education, organizers welcomed everyone to suggest public events that they could coordinate.
At Moscow Farmers Market on the same Saturday, Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition (PESC) members talked with dozens of visitors of their outreach table at Friendship Square in Moscow, where they circulated fliers about the Lac-Mégantic disaster and displayed a poster with the written memories of local 2103 Tar Sands Healing Walk participants hearing about the tragedy while attending the First Nations ceremonies in Alberta. Moscow activists also gathered signatures for a petition to Governor Otter asking for his support of "all efforts to prevent oil and coal trains from passing through the state of Idaho" for health and safety reasons.
Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) offered a Skyped oil train watch workshop, presented by Matt Landon of Vancouver Action Network in Washington, on Saturday afternoon, July 9, at the East Bonner County Library in Sandpoint. Seven regional citizens learned methods for widespread, track-side monitoring, documenting, and reporting of Northwest oil train passage during Matt's third interactive training session in the inland Northwest. Two Occupy activists traveled 75 miles to participate in the workshop, and may provide a fourth session for their Spokane comrades.
To honor the 47 Lac-Mégantic oil train victims, WIRT and 350Sandpoint held a candlelight vigil and march with protest signs through downtown Sandpoint, from Farmin Park to the BNSF rail line near the Amtrak station, on Tuesday evening, July 12. Despite the solemn spirit of the hour-long demonstration, city and railroad police dogged the seven concerned residents of the vulnerable, rural Idaho, oil train corridor throughout the event. After walking the quiet streets and sharing personal stories and reflections, half of the participants did not finish at the tracks.
350Sandpoint, PESC, and WIRT are deeply grateful for the friends, neighbors, and partner organizations who together contributed their efforts toward the #StopOilTrains in Idaho Week of Action. In appreciation of them, the victims of catastrophic oil train derailments, fires, and spills in Lac-Mégantic Quebec, Mosier Oregon, and dozens of other impacted communities, and the 15,500-plus residents of the mile-wide, Bonner County, Idaho oil train route "blast zones," we are calling on Idaho government officials to end all coal and oil train transportation through the state [7-10]. Continue reading
Climate Justice Forum: Lac-Megantic Tragedy Commemorations, Quinault Oil Terminal Demonstration, #StopOilTrains Week of Action, BLM Lease Auction Protest 7-13-16
The Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features news about three-year anniversary commemorations of the Lac-Megantic oil train tragedy, the Quinault Indian Nation's demonstration against Grays Harbor oil terminals, #StopOilTrains Week of Action protests throughout the Northwest, and upcoming resistance to a BLM oil and gas lease auction and nuclear waste in southern Idaho. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism and community opposition to extreme energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
8 pm Tuesday, July 12: #StopOilTrains Candlelight Vigil & March in Sandpoint
PLEASE JOIN US on Tuesday, July 12, at 8 pm, starting from the Farmin Park clock in Sandpoint, for a candlelight vigil and march commemorating the 47 lives lost to a fiery oil train derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on July 6, 2013 [1-3]. Regional climate activist groups Wild Idaho Rising Tide, 350Sandpoint, and allies encourage you and hundreds of concerned area citizens to participate and bring candles (we can provide some), protest signs, ideas for creative street theater, and reports and reflections on life in a vulnerable, rural, Northwest oil train corridor.
"The Week of Action includes events in dozens of cities and towns. In Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, residents gathered on Saturday, July 9, to honor the 47 people who perished in the fire. 'These are solemn events,' says Marilaine Savard, a resident of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. 'Once an oil train derails and catches fire, you and your town will never fully recover.'" [4, 5]
In Bonner County, Idaho, over 15,500 people live in oil train "blast zones," under the increasing threat of potential derailments, spills, explosions, and fires of mile-long crude oil trains hauled by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) and Union Pacific Railway from the Alberta tar sands and Bakken shale oil fields to Pacific Rim refineries and ports [6-8]. Currently, 8,419 people reside within one half-mile of the tracks, and another 7,087 people live between one half-mile and one mile of the rail lines in the county. #StopOilTrains in Idaho Week of Action events emphasize and seek to resolve this environmental injustice.
We will report soon on #StopOilTrains Week of Action demonstrations in Lac-Mégantic, the Northwest, and Idaho, as the movement against fossil fuel exacerbation of climate change grows. The Quinault Indian Nation hosted the likely largest anti-oil train gathering during the last week, on Friday, July 8, when more than 600 tribal members, neighbors, and regional allies attended [9]. Together, they boated, marched, and rallied to call on the City of Hoquiam to reject proposed crude oil terminals in Grays Harbor, Washington.
Hoping to see you on Tuesday evening: Thanks! Continue reading
Climate Justice Forum: #StopOilTrains Week of Action, City Bans of Oil Trains & Coal Ports 7-6-16
Stop Oil Trains in Idaho Week of Action
Groups stage week of action to #StopOilTrains in Idaho
Continent-wide demonstrations mark three-year anniversary of Lac-Mégantic explosion
North Idaho activists invite the public to join them at four events on July 9 and 12 commemorating the 47 lives lost to a Bakken crude oil train derailment and explosion in downtown Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on July 6, 2013. During the three years since this tragedy, dozens of similar, fiery accidents have risked and wrecked public and environmental health and safety and the global climate – more than in the previous four decades – including the Union Pacific oil train derailment, spill, and fire in the Columbia River Gorge town of Mosier, Oregon, on June 3, 2016.
In response, Sandpoint and Moscow groups 350Sandpoint, Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition, and Wild Idaho Rising Tide are participating with thousands of people across North America in the July 6 to 12 #StopOilTrains Week of Action.* Partner organizations providing event support around the continent include 350.org, Credo, Sierra Club, Sightline Institute, Oil Change International, and Waterkeeper. Continue reading
Climate Justice Forum: NW Oil Train Moratorium Requests, EFSEC Oil Terminal Hearings, Payette County Oil Discovery, Gulf of Mexico Fracking Permits 6-29-16
WIRT & Allied Summer Events
Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) recently updated the WIRT Events Calendar, posting dozens of summer, climate and indigenous activism events on the WIRT website [1]. Please visit this page often for links to further information and descriptions of upcoming events involving you in grassroots resistance to the root causes of climate change. We will soon announce plans discussed with allies for the Stop Oil Trains in Idaho Week of Action, including a Skyped train monitoring workshop and demonstrations against Northwest oil trains and terminals.
During this summer 2016 season, we are advancing ongoing WIRT and allied mobilization of regional residents for coordinated, region-wide actions and agency hearings on Northwest coal, oil, gas, and tar sands leases, wells, processing plants, refineries, terminals, and trains. We are grateful to provide trainspotting and kayaktivist trainings, direct action workshops, educational presentations, peaceful protests, informal convergences, and other activities that expand the Northwest movement against extreme energy and for a livable future.
Please participate in WIRT's twice-monthly potluck/pub meetings at 7 pm every first Wednesday at The Attic, up the back stairs of 314 E. Second Street in Moscow, Idaho, and at 7 pm every third Wednesday at Eichardt's Pub upstairs game room, 212 Cedar Street in Sandpoint, Idaho. Call 208-301-8039 for agendas, carpools, and directions for these gatherings and other events across the region.
To keep WIRT activists informed about anti-fossil fuel campaigns, we host the weekly Climate Justice Forum radio program on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, live at 90.3 FM and online [2, 3]. The show covers continent-wide climate and indigenous activism and community opposition to dirty energy projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.
Opportunities for your creative resistance to climate change perpetrators call for your participation: Continue reading


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This charming stone home rests on 1.35 acres with 175 feet of lake frontage. You will enjoy the private dock, large shade trees and spacious green lawn for picnics, soccer and softball games. This cottage is located minutes from Red Arrow Marina so boat ramp and water equipment rentals are all nearby. The towns of Ketchum, Grove, Langley and Vinita are all within a 15 to 30 minute drive for your enjoyment of golf, tennis, beaches, parks, theatres, shopping, sightseeing and dining out.
The home has 3,000 sq foot with 5 bedrooms and 3 full baths for your family and friends to share. Large picture windows and sliding glass doors allow for lake view from many rooms. There is a welcoming front porch and balcony that extends across the back of the home leading to a charming circular patio furnished with gas grill and outdoor furniture for your enjoyment.
The home is quite suitable for 'gathering friends and family' as there are 2 levels with comfortable living room and 3 bedrooms on each floor. The upstairs has full kitchen open to the dining and living area, the lower level has sink, refrigerator and microwave for quick meals and snacks. Both living areas have flat screen TV's, wood burning stoves, and great views of the lake. The lower living area offers a pool table and game area as well.
Keywords: lakeside, cottage, cabin, vacation home, vacation rental
My husband and I hold full time jobs as well as parenting our large and busy family. We relish 'getting away' from our hectic life style to a place of peace and quiet to enjoy one another and the simple pleasures in life. The cottage offers our family a place where we can re-connect. That is why we have this lake home! We would like to share it with you for the same reasons and hope your time will be greatly enjoyed at The Gathering Cottage!
The Owner purchased this house in 2009
We bought this lakeside stone cottage as it has been a charming place for our extended family to 'come away' for fun and refreshing for years. We have enjoyed fishing, boating, inter-tubing, canoeing, swimming from the dock and just relaxing with the lovely lake view. It has been a place of enjoyment, and 'peace of mind' for our family for some time. We are sure you will feel the same and are glad to share it with you!
Fall and Winter Updates: FISHING AND HUNTING ARE BIG THIS WINTER!!!!
Black Bass-year round. Winter can be great if the lake is not muddy.
Crappie-October till June. Summer months are usually tough
White Bass-January thru November. We always catch the biggest ones in January and February, spawners in the river in March and April, great fishing in the main lake all summer, points in the fall.
Catfish-year round. Big Blue Cats over 30 lbs., November, December, and March
Spoonbill snagging- December, January in the lake; February, March, April in the river
Deer hunting is one of the most popular pastimes for Sooner hunters. In fact, these days are golden if you hunt deer in our state; our deer numbers are exploding and the quality of our bucks gets better each season! A national deer-hunting publication recently rated Oklahoma as one of the Top 10 states for whitetail hunting.
Hi Janae!
We are finally home and recovered from our wonderful trip to Grand Lake. We had such a great time at your home. It was so spacious and relaxing- a perfect getaway for our family. The view of the lake from both levels was stunning! It was the perfect scene to wake up to each and every morning.
What I loved about the house the most were the two huge living areas. The kids were downstairs playing games and watching movies while we could fix supper or enjoy some adult conversation without interruption,.
We also loved the gentle slope to the water and swimming off the dock. It was so hot, we couldn't keep from jumping in! My youngest son even caught a catfish off the side of the dock, which was pretty exciting!
We spent a lot of our time on the pontoon boat, fishing in the morning and evening. It was sort of a waste to venture out, though, the water around the dock was like glass- no wake, no waves- and perfect for fishing. Not too far from the house, I personally caught over 8 catfish and bass, which made me very happy!
Your home was absolutely beautiful, and had everything we needed. I can't thank you enough for allowing us to stay in your wonderful cottage! The memories will last me and my family a lifetime! I will be emailing you to book our future stay!
We just got back from our family reunion at your place. Each year we pick a different state/location for our family reunion over the last 20 years, and this is by far the best place we have experienced! We brought our boat from Arizona taking a chance of what the lake would be like, and we couldn't have asked for anything better! The views were breathtaking and the water was smoother in the cove behind the house which made for ideal boating activities! Those that didn't want to boat could watch from the backyard. The home was very comfortable in every way and well stocked. Definitely recommend for those who enjoy playing on the water! Thanks so much for having a great house and location - we will definitely be back!
Our family of five spent one week at the Gathering Cottage. My nephew and his wife stayed the weekend and brought their boat to share for a fun, relaxing and interesting cruse on the lake. The house was very roomy and comfortable especially for our small group. The kitchen was very well organized and supplied. We were looking for something right on the lake with a great view! This was definitely the place! We enjoyed sitting on the balcony overlooking the lake taking in the peace and tranquility! Also, with the celebration of my sister's birthday, playing games, watching movies, putting puzzles together and our home cooked food, we made some awesome memories! Such a nice getaway!
Thanks, Janae for sharing your wonderful home and being so helpful with my questions.
I don't know where to begin. We have rented many condos from VRBO in other states, but making the reservations with Janae and all the transactions were the smoothest we've ever had. Her "Gathering Cottage" is a HOME with everything anyone would want, plus many extras. The views are fantastic. I normally don't write reviews (good or bad), but this house and the "Blue House" next door which we also rented were perfect for our large gathering. At one point on Saturday we had 31 family members at both houses, ages from 1 yr to 80. Not all spent the night, but the large amount that did had plenty of places to sleep and with central A/C in big house, it was very very comfortable and no one was cramped at all. My husband & I got the master BR and the mattress on the bed is the best we have ever slept in, including our own! Our 80 yr old Uncle had no problem walking across the lawn to the Gathering House. The slight incline to the water's edge was nothing and the boat dock was used everyday (all day) for fishing, swimming, boating and seadoo.
The pool table, games & TV's in up & downstairs were much appreciated. We had so many compliments regarding the houses and the location, that we are planning our next year reunion already at this same place. The neighborhood is quiet and is very convenient to Cahoots convenience store for anything forgotten. I hesitate going on & on about how happy and pleased we all were with the houses for fear they won't be available when we want them :)
Thank you Janae for allowing us in your beautiful houses and our family reunion being the best one yet. I will be discussing with you soon about next year renting. Thanks again.
This was our annual summer family get together which included ages 87 to 2 years old, and what a fantastic place to accommodate our family. With the cottage (house) being two stories, those that need to nap or to go to bed early could do so upstairs; and those that wanted to visit late into the night could be down stairs. The only challenge was the older and younger ones navigating the stairs, but with a little assistance by family members it wasn't really a big concern. The kitchen was completely equipped with every appliance you could possibly need. The game room had everything including puzzles, games, pool table and TV. We were thankful that the game room was actually a basement and so well equip to entertain as we had to take shelter for an hour as there was a tornado in the area. This May 2015 was not typical as it rained the entire month; therefore, we didn't really get to take advantage of the lake and dock as the water was too high with too much debris. The weather didn't dampened our family time together...it just altered it a bit as we enjoyed playing inside games and just being together. Also, the owner was a fabulous person to work with and so very accommodating. I accidentally left a picture of our grandsons at the cottage which the cleaning crew found and gave to the owner. She took the time to confirm I was missing a photo and mailed it to me. I was so relieved to have that picture back; she is a very kind, considerate person. It was a true pleasure to get to know her through renting her cottage (house). This is a fabulous place to stay; we hope to rent the cottage again in the future. I would highly recommend this loving lake cottage (house); you will have a fabulous time!
My family stayed here to celebrate my father's 60th birthday for a weekend. It was a wonderful home and very spacious. Kitchen was large and had everything we needed to cook, eat and then some. LOTS of sleeping SPACE!! We were 11 adults and had more than enough room. Home is very clean and in a great location. Lots of activities, games, pool table, tvs, etc. We also brought a friend's boat and were able to fish from the boat as well as off the dock. Loved the fire pit and chiminea outside for chilly evenings. Beautiful view from the dining room table overlooking the lake. Janae does a great job of communicating quickly and thoroughly. The guestbook that is at the cottage when you get there is very informative and helpful with directions for public boat ramps, local restaurant menus, etc. I would highly recommend the gathering cottage for your next getaway! We would definitely stay here as a family again!!
Excellent place to stay, very clean and well setup. There was a total of six adults (male) and we each had our own bedroom. Plenty of things to keep busy with around the house, pool table, board games, two TVs, fire pit, lake access, etc... Janae was very helpful and answered all questions, best places to eat, shop, directions to cottage, and locations throughout the area. Really nice place to stay at, I highly recommend the Gathering Place for any family event.
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Summer 2016
May 1 2016 - Sep 30 2016
2 night minimum stay
Oct 1 2016 - Apr 30 2017
2 night minimum stay
Summer 2017
May 1 2017 - Sep 30 2017
2 night minimum stay
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2 night minimum stay
|Cleaning Fee
|Refundable damage deposit
No Summer 2 night weekend reservations taken, summer weekend reservation minimum is 3 nights.
Holiday visits are an additional $100/night for a 3 night minimum, including:
New Years, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Full refund of deposit if reservation cancelled 60 days prior to visit.
Reservations made 60 days in advance will have 2 installments; half of rental total due 60 days prior to visit and the remainder due 2 weeks prior to visit.


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A 12-week public consultation to review passenger ship safety has been launched by the European Commission.
The proposals are based on more than two years of intensive work and outline the Commission's priority actions to safeguard passenger safety on domestic and international crossings.
The three pronged approach targets promoting industry voluntary measures, enforcing existing rules and adopting new legislation where necessary. Such as updating rules for roll-on-roll-off ferries to improve stability if they incur damage.
Speaking at a conference in Brussels, Vice-President Kallas said: "Tragic accidents, from the Titanic to the Costa Concordia, put ship safety in the spotlight. There are always lessons to learn from such disasters, but we are not just waiting for the next accident to happen. It would be foolhardy merely to respond after the event. The EU has the toughest ship safety rules in the world and this is the result of a process of continuous improvements, proactive and preventative measures to raise maritime safety standards."
Following the Costa Concordia cruise ship accident in January of this year, some issues have been raised specifically addressing larger passenger ships. Therefore the Commission is seeking feedback from the maritime field in particular on the current arrangements.
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Prestige Auto Works
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We have ASE technicians, Volvo and BMW factory certified. We work on all makes and models, but we specialize in foreign cars. Proficient in diagnostics, smog inspections and repair, regular maintenance and all major repairs and tune-ups. You can count on us for quality repairs in a timely manor.
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Question Answered: Why does my jeep hesitate and buckle when I accelerate
May 04, 2016, 09:37 AM
To determine why your Jeep does not perform as it should when accelerating, we would need to inspect and test components to make any recommendations. It could be an issue with fuel or spark and on some models it may be an electric or sensor issue. If the check engine light comes on, that may provide a clue as to which system to inspect.
Question Answered: have incorrect flo. whats wrong with my car?
January 21, 2016, 10:08 AM
To properly diagnose your car, a technician will smoke test the system to check the evap. system to see if any valves or solenoids are malfunctioning.
Question Answered: at what mileage should a timing chain get changed for a 2004 Toyota matrix
September 28, 2015, 10:38 AM
Timing CHAIN's should last the life of the vehicle. (timing belts - not on this vehicle - require replacement every 60-110,000 per manufactures specified recommendation)
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September 28, 2015, 10:35 AM
You should service the engine oil about every 3500 miles. During regular maintenance the technician will inspect the vehicle and advise you of any additional concerns.
Question Answered: WHY DOES MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT COME ON THEN OFF
September 28, 2015, 10:32 AM
You may have an intermittent problem, so when the on board diagnostics system checks it - sometimes it checks ok within the parameters set, and sometimes it's not, which triggers the check engine light to come on. The codes will be stored in the history or pending, even if the light is not on. Have the codes checked to make sure something critical is not neglected, leading to a more expensive repair. Simply you can also check to make sure you are tightening your gas cap properly, because if it is loose the check engine light will come on.
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September 28, 2015, 10:28 AM
The sensors may be internal and could require tear down of the transmission. With this kind of high mileage, likely it's best to tear down and replace worn or broken parts as well during the circuit repair.
Question Answered: Driving on the freeway the other day and my van check engine came on then my van
September 28, 2015, 10:22 AM
The Check Engine light can come on for many reasons. Did you experience any performance issues? Is the light flashing? Once the codes are read then the technician will know which system to inspect and test to finally be able to make an accurate recommendation for a repair.
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September 28, 2015, 09:54 AM
We specialize in Mercedes diagnostics, we can advise you once the vehicle is inspected here. Sometimes if a battery has a bad cell, it may test "ok" some of the time. Batteries typically last on average 3-5 years.
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May 29, 2015, 01:29 PM
This vehicle has direct ignition coils and your coil may have failed. It's important to check the condition of the spark plugs, if they are worn out the misfire can wear out the coils as well. There are other less likely causes to your cylinder misfire that would be inspected if the spark plugs and coil are working optimally.
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I'll advise you to take it to a repair shop that specializes in diagnostics. Overheating the engine can quickly cause permanent damage. Explain the repair history and timeframe of your engine problems before and after. A careful inspection and tests should be performed before more serious damage occurs.
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I have this 2000 Tahoe, mine's a Z71. It has about 190k miles and it's really an excellent vehicle for a family. Very roomy and comfortable. The leather is still in excellent condition. It has been regularly maintained. The dual air is nice to ensure comfort throughout this spacious SUV. We are just replace the a/c compressor and a fuel injector. The previous owner switched and put green coolant in, but we are converting it back to the original DEX-COOL (red) for Chevy's. These large SUV's corner a bit uncomfortably. Now I'm getting a little exhaust fumes when first starting.
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