It’s been a crazy busy week! So instead of an essay I’m sending out a bit of round-up of some of my recent activities elsewhere.
Feminist Current
Since yesterday the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, I will start with an article on abortion I published back in March for Feminist Current.
I have come to this position because the ugly truth is that the contemporary mainstream women’s movement cannot be trusted with such a sacrosanct moral question. This is a movement that has gone along with the lie that men can get pregnant, and therefore need abortion services, that women should be referred to as “menstruators” to protect the feelings of men who claim they are women and women who claim they are men, and that the term “mother” is offensive, as it excludes males. To me, it seems like common sense to say that any group willing to indulge in infantile fantasy and dehumanize women in order to protect the desires and delusions of men should not be an arbiter in matters of life, death, women’s rights and autonomy.
In May, I published a piece on the politicisation of childhood for The Critic Magazine.
We are using our kids to virtue signal our adult politics. This is a deep betrayal. We scratch our heads over why we are seeing all these mental health problems, while also allowing children’s heads to be filled with terror over climate change, stress over Covid and confusion over the sexual issues of adults.
The sexual activities and predilections of adults have no business in classrooms, but they are creeping into British schools, one “pleasure & communication” worksheet at a time. I know if I was asked, back when I was 17, to write a school essay about a television show that discusses feeling “horny” and how to “explain what they like during sex”, I would have felt anxious too.
Spiked!
And most recently, I wrote for Spiked about my contempt for mainstream American journalists who manage to make journalism all about them.
Has there ever been a more cosseted, sheltered and pampered group of women in the history of humanity than today’s young(ish) female journalists? Not since Marie Antoinette decreed that the plebs should eat cake has a group of women been more out of touch with the concerns of ordinary people.
And finally, last Sunday when I was still in New York, I took a trip to the Cloisters in Manhattan with Jodi Shaw and we recorded a brief conversation about culture and the last true bohemian (that’s Jodi, in my humble opinion.)
And for the week that’s in it, my position on the final Supreme Court ruling on Roe can be summed up with this one image. Thanks to Sienna Mae Heath for sharing it on Instagram!
Have a good weekend everyone, back to my regular letter next week.
It is good to hear voices sane enough to recognize that something is increasingly problematic in the world today. As Scripture says, "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is."
Good stuff.
It is good to hear voices sane enough to recognize that something is increasingly problematic in the world today. As Scripture says, "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is."