Tag: sex differences

Jenny Agutter in Walkabout (1971)

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This is a follow-up to an earlier article, which began with a look at the theory that sex differences are due not to nature, but to society or men. I’ll skip the preamble this time, nor will I argue that the listed differences are due to nature. Take it from me, they are.

1. When a couple walks hand-in-hand, sometimes the woman leans on the man. You don’t see men leaning on women. (more…)

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Introduction

Some people think that the sexes only differ because of discrimination, “society,” or “the environment.” Were it not for the way they are treated, their upbringing, or the advertisements they see, women would be just like men. (more…)

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All people have a tendency to project their own attitudes and sentiments onto others. Thus, for example, it has often been noted that untrustworthy people are the most inclined to mistrust others. One special form of psychological projection is the tendency of each sex to assume the other thinks like itself. This leads to a lot of frustration and misunderstanding, because the evolutionary history and brain functioning of women and men are in fact very different. Thus arises the common female complaint that men are “jerks,” and the corresponding male lament that women are irrational and/or impossible to understand. (more…)

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It’s an old meme based on a comedy sketch that gave me my introduction to this question. But it raises a perfectly serious, important point. Namely, it gets right to the heart of why the supposed ideal of “equality” is nothing but a misdirection and a myth. If men and women are equal, then how come women have never successfully oppressed an entire gender? (more…)

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It has baffled me for a long time why scientists, among all people, are among the most fervent proponents of egalitarianism and race denialism. This phenomenon is more salient in the humanities and social sciences, on which many would have a second thought before qualifying them as “science.” (more…)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, « Une vision de Fiametta », 1878

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English original here

Cet essai est extrait du livre de Michael Polignano, Taking Our Own Side [Prendre parti pour notre propre camp], disponible en version reliée, en version brochée, et en PDF à télécharger ici.

21 octobre 2003

Il y a quelques jours, j’ai eu une discussion mouvementée sur les différences sexuelles avec une amie à moi qui se proclame féministe. (more…)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “A Vision of Fiametta,” 1878

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Übersetzt von Deep Roots.

Vorwort von Greg Johnson:

Dieser Essay ist aus Michael Polignanos Buch Taking Our Own Side das hier in gebundener Ausgabe, als Paperback und PDF erhältlich ist.

21. Oktober 2003

Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich mit einer Freundin von mir, die sich als Feministin bezeichnet, eine hitzige Diskussion über Geschlechterunterschiede. (more…)

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Caspar David Friedrich, "Rocky Landscape in the Elbsandsteingebirge," 1822–1823

Editor’s Note:

The following is from Anthony M. Ludovici, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici, ed. John V. Day, ch. 3, “My Education, Part.” Unless otherwise indicated, all notes are by Ludovici. John V. Day’s notes are marked JVD, and additional notes are marked GJ. The book remains unpublished, but we hope to raise funds to finally bring it into print later this year.

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Specialists in evolutionary psychology claim that there are important differences between the sexes, and that these were acquired during the evolution of the species. To what does the New Right appeal to support its “differentialist feminism”?

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I am all right. I tell myself this at the grocery store when, in the midst of an apparent manic episode I begin chatting inanely with the mixed-race store clerk in the designer frames. He is cordial, but it is clear that he thinks I am not quite right. But I am.

Sometimes I blurt things out on the subway. I might be having an imaginary argument with a co-worker, or with Barack Obama, or with someone I’ve just dreamed up. “Pigs!” I mutter. (more…)

The Painter's Honeymoon by Lord Frederick Leighton, 1864

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Part 6 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

Now, some might respond to Lawrence’s description of marriage by asking, understandably, “Where is love in all of this? What has become of love between man and wife?” Yet Lawrence speaks again and again, especially in Women in Love, of love between man and wife as a means to wholeness, as a way to transcend the false, ego-centered self. In a 1914 letter he tells a male correspondent: (more…)

Icarus by Lord Frederick Leighton

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Part 5 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

4. A New Relation Between Man and Woman

So what is to be done? How are we to repair the damage that has been done in the modern world to the relation between the sexes? How are we to make men into men again, and women into women?

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