The tomboy debate - Samirah vs. Hannah Barron: Eastern shaming against the West In The shaming fallacy [part 1], I failed to communicate my point accurately enough; that shaming, just like violence, is unethical only when initiated, when it seeks to alter the neutral state of the default. By all means, use psychological or physical violence when defending yourself from proportional aggression initiated against you. But to presume to take the initiate to shame others minding…
Authority is a bluff **Authority is a bluff**. It exists only if you fall for it. You fall for it if you stand for nothing, if you don’t stand up for yourself or your family. **Authority is a bluff**. It takes only a critical mass of the population to fall for it to make it real. When they fall for it, they become it, and authority grows like a zombie army. Those it devours become its instruments, so that even those who deny it must reluctantly comply to superior force.…
How government kills masculinity [Part 1] If I could define masculinity in one word, it would be *control*. A man is not defined by his muscles, aggression, circumstantial resources, or even his intellect. Muscles are the easiest thing to acquire - those who obsess about their physique are usually gays (males with female insecurities) or just insecure at best. A man is defined by his ability to control his immediate environment, his life, his destiny, and more importantly,…
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