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Candace Owens
Make Him a Sandwich
Platform Press, 2025

I am aware that not many readers of this platform are fans of Candace Owens for various reasons, and so I am not going to discuss Candace Owens. I’m sure that will happen in the comments section without my help.

Recently, Owens published a book called Make Him a Sandwich—Why Real Women Don’t Need Fake Feminism. Well, feminism is not “fake” at all, so that part of the title doesn’t really make sense, but as Owens will go on to explain, much of the motivation of feminists, as well as their arguments, are very much fake. (more…)

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We live in an age when ordinary standards of civility have collapsed yet somehow there is universal agreement that even morons and criminals deserve to be treated with “respect.” We are urged to extend respect even to other species and the planet as a whole. Sometimes self-respect is enjoined upon us. Within my experience, the most common such injunction is addressed to men, who exhorted ad nauseam to respect women. (more…)

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Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012), longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, was one of the most influential American women of the late twentieth century, although virtually all of this influence was harmful. A native of Arkansas, she graduated from Woodbury Business College in California. Her first professional success came in the advertising business, a fact significant for a proper understanding of her later career. In 1959 she married David Brown, who later became a Hollywood film producer; the marriage lasted until his death more than fifty years later. (more…)

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I intensely dislike the neologism “incel,” a portmanteau term for involuntary celibate. It seems to me an entirely unnecessary synonym for what has always been called a “bachelor,” or unmarried man. Growing up in a vestigially Christian society, I learned the faith’s traditional teaching about sexual morality: one could either get married or remain celibate, with either being a legitimate choice. (more…)

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Few moral obligations can weigh more heavily on the male sex than the duty to protect innocent women from seduction, so I thought I would direct the attention of all men reading this website to the most heart-rending video I have ever come across, posted recently on Youtube under the title Linda Ronstadt names the 13 men who SEDUCED Her. (more…)

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The sexual revolution had no unambiguous “Thermidor” moment like the fall of Robespierre to bring its most radical phase to an end, but by the beginning of the new millennium it was clear feminism was no longer carrying all before it as it had just a few years earlier. Its institutional legacy, of course, is with us still, and the work of clearing it away has scarcely begun. (more…)

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You can buy F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power here.

Part 1, Part 2

Besides date rape, “sexual harassment” is the major criminological innovation of the modern feminist movement. As noted in a previous essay, when the expression was first introduced in 1978 it referred to sexual extortion, the use of threats or reductions in a woman’s options in order to elicit sexual favors from her. This has always been recognized as wrong, and no new term was needed to describe it. But the term appeared anyway, and the first “sexual harassment” legal case called by that name was adjudged in 1979.

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Ma torniamo alla nostra storia. Qualche giorno dopo, il nostro ragazzo sta conversando con un amico e gli dice: “Sai, mi è successa la cosa più incredibile che ho avuto lo scorso fine settimana”. Sorpresa e sconcerto sono ancora percepibili nella sua voce. (more…)

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Il filosofo britannico CEM Joad (1891-1953) una volta spiegò la decadenza sociale come “un segno della tendenza dell’uomo a fraintendere la propria posizione nell’universo, ad avere una visione del proprio status e delle proprie prospettive più elevata di quanto i fatti giustifichino e a dirigere le proprie società e a pianificare il proprio futuro sulla base di questa interpretazione errata”. Le età decadenti iniziano quando:

L’uomo che ha goduto di un lungo periodo di successo crede che nulla gli sia impossibile. È lui, secondo lui, l’arbitro del suo destino e della sua fortuna; il futuro è suo, da creare. “Gli uomini”, come disse Alberti, il fiorentino rinascimentale, “possono fare tutto se vogliono”.

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The 1980s, the decade of my early manhood, was an era of transition. Seeds planted in the 1970s that would burst forth into hideous flower in the 1990s were quietly germinating. The rumor that there was more sex than before the sexual revolution of the late 1960s persisted—as it does even today among the less well-informed of the older generation—but the initial excitement had clearly died down. (more…)

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Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here

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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Part 1 here, Italian translation here

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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Italian translation here

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…)