Tag: female pyschology

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In this edition of Time Capsule Cinema we’ll be looking at a film that has a lot in common with the last time capsule movie I wrote about: The Amityville Horror. They are both from the 1970s, they were both based popular books that claimed to be stranger-than-fiction true stories, and those “true stories” have since been come to be seen as likely hoaxes.The movie is Sybil, a 1976 made-for-TV movie starring Sally Field about a working woman in New York trying to get through life while burdened with multiple personality disorder. (more…)

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I feel more incapable than ever of loving a woman, because I will always love all the others too much. I wish I had a thousand arms, a thousand lips, and a thousand… temperaments to be able to embrace an entire army of those charming and insignificant beings at once.
-Guy de Maupassant (more…)

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1849–1921, "Virgin Enthroned," 1891

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10. Deliberate Erosion of Male Role by Feminism

To these intrinsic male disadvantages in the modern workplace must be added those directly created by feminism. (more…)

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7. Consequences of “Unlimited Choice”

Most leftist utopias involve enjoying all the benefits of tightly knit communities while paying none of the costs in individual freedom such communities demand. Thus, feminists propose to liberate women from “domestic drudgery” and replace it with unrestricted personal choice. Yet the drudgery of marriage and its duties are, quite obviously, the indispensable basis of the family, the model and source for all real community. (more…)

Queen Victoria spinning wool

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5. No Property Rights within the Traditional Family

Male provisioning may have arisen as an adaptation by early hominids to the more adverse climatic conditions they encountered upon migrating out of Africa. To this day, female food production remains the rule in much of Black Africa. (more…)

Jan Van Eyck, "The Arnolfini Marriage," 1434

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3. Modern Neglect of the Economic Side of Marriage

Having examined briefly — in the first section — the two principal ways in which feminism has undermined the former position of esteem enjoyed by women in our civilization, let us proceed to consider how that position used to be maintained.

The bedrock of the system, more fundamental than the ideal of chivalry, was the institution of marriage. (more…)

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1. Two conflicting conceptions of feminine dignity

One of the hallmarks of Western civilization is the unusually high status it has accorded women. That has often been attributed to the influence of Christianity, which prizes certain typically feminine virtues (mercy, humility) more than pagan society had. (more…)