Author: F. Roger Devlin

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Another important aspect of sexual discourse in the 1970s was, of course, the then-burgeoning feminist movement already alluded to, but this was of almost no concern to a little boy or adolescent such as myself. (more…)

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Cosmopolitan was not the only magazine whose covers caught my attention as a child. There were also celebrity gossip magazines dishing all the latest on Liz and Dick (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton). Another celebrity couple I particularly remember from childhood is Gregg Allman and Cher, then recently divorced from Sonny Bono (this will have been in 1975 when I was eleven). (more…)

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1973 witnessed professional tennis’s heavily promoted “Battle of the Sexes” between 55-year-old former Wimbledon Champion Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old feminist Billie Jean King. The gallant Mr. Riggs, of course, let Miss King win. (more…)

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The decade of the 1970s coincided with my seventh through the seventeenth years. They made a strong impression on me, as those years of one’s life generally do. I remember a lot of what I saw, experienced, and thought about growing up. (more…)

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But let us return to our story. A few days later, our young man is conversing with a friend and tells him, “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me last weekend.” Surprise and bewilderment can still be heard in his voice. (more…)

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The British philosopher C. E. M. Joad (1891-1953) once explained societal decadence as “a sign of man’s tendency to misread his position in the universe, to take a view of his status and prospects more exalted than the facts warrant, and to conduct his societies and to plan his future on the basis of this misreading.” (more…)

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Bettie Page

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Much of a girl’s reputation had to do with chastity, but not all. A second aspect was the need to keep dates. When a boy asked a girl out, she had the right to say either yes or no. But if she said yes, she absolutely, positively had to go on that date. (more…)

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Men are citizens of their age as much as citizens of their country, as Schiller once remarked. Young people, especially small children, have an almost limitless capacity for assuming what they see around them is normal, since they have nothing else to compare it with. I was born in 1963, which means I came of age in the 1970s and early 1980s. (more…)

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This is the fourth and—I hope and believe—final installment of a series which sprang from what I originally intended as a single article. Previous pieces were “A Puzzling Situation”, “A Short Note on Satire”, and “Welcome to My Workshop.” The trouble started when the first piece met with more incomprehension than I had foreseen. (more…)

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Most worthwhile pursuits are more difficult than they appear to the casual observer. Only those with a bit of natural talent and a determination to persevere and overcome all obstacles ever achieve the success which appears effortless to outsiders. That appearance of effortlessness is, indeed, part of what distinguishes the true master. (more…)

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Last Friday, Counter-Currents published a piece of mine entitled “A Puzzling Situation”. From the responses in the comments section, it appears to have puzzled a lot of readers. If you have read any of my previous work, you may have gathered the impression that there was something slightly “off” about this new essay. You may even have noticed that it started out in a fairly straightforward manner, but that the farther you read, the more that impression of strangeness grew. (more…)

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In recent years I have been experiencing something I had often heard about from others but somehow never expected might happen to me: I have found myself getting old. So far it does not seem quite as bad as I have heard it described, but at sixty-one years of age I am, so to speak, still a youngster at being old. We’ll just have to see. (more…)

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My Response Part Two: The Effect of Corrupt Status Hierarchies on Female Hypergamy

I could go on at much greater length denouncing the absurd, grotesque, surreal levels of corruption plaguing Western institutions of higher learning, but I bite my tongue to return to the point from which we set out, viz., Rob Henderson’s article “All the Single Ladies” and its touching portrayal of the loneliness of contemporary women who cannot find sufficiently educated men. (more…)