I think the party line from women has to be that all woman-uninitiated contact in public is harassment because women get so very much undesired contact.

As I’ve gotten slimmer, fitter and richer, though, I notice I get more contact initiated from women in public, especially if I am not with my partner. I don’t consider it harassment though it mostly doesn’t interest me either way. I have extremely low social capacity, though my social skills are pretty good these days.

Today at Morton’s (a local grocery store) for instance, a woman in my age range noticed me looking at pies in the case and said, “That one, that one right there is good.” She pointed at a chocolate mousse pie. Everything about her body language and approach told me she wanted me to talk to her more. I just wanted to get my dessert and go home, which I did (without being rude).

Branching off from that, it is definitely true that most feminist dating “advice” is absolute worthless garbage. If you listen to and follow any of that, good luck getting any dates ever. You don’t need to go full PUA but one of the reasons the PUA community is hated (apart from their raging misogyny) is because much of their basic advice works. Feminists like Amanda Marcotte see it as undesirable, geeky guys leveling up undeservedly, but it’s really just learning to be social and to read cues better. (I think this is most of the reason it’s hated, the Marcotte reasons, not the misogyny. To “feminists” like Marcotte, the mere existence of geeky, undesirable guys is misogyny.)

Posting this because women are often told they should not lift weights. That’s terrible advice; you should get you some weights, heavy ones, and lift them fuckers.

Ladies,

If you want to look better naked, lift weights.
If you want to have better posture, lift weights.
If you want to feel better in everything you do, lift weights.

Basically, lift weights.

Enough of doing just the mindless cardio.

— Rachel Bock (@RachelBock9) February 23, 2019

The first ten on today’s playlist:

A New Americanism. Why a Nation Needs a National Story.

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve increasingly parted ways from the left and from feminism — not because I’ve abandoned those principles or those ideals but because they have abandoned me.

There’s only so much denial of science, of history, and embrace of conspiracy-mongering and wishful thinking that one can take before saying, “No more of this.” These same reasons are why I moved away from the Right many years ago (in my teens), so I am definitely not moving rightward again by any means as they have not improved.

It’s merely that the left has gotten worse, and is worsening at a quickening pace.

The problem is that I believe that the world has changed enough that no one has any cohesive program of thought to comprehend and contextualize the enormous alterations we’ve already experienced and the yet-larger ones to come. I don’t have it, and I think about it all the time, nearly every waking hour. Pundits certainly have nothing. The left has less than nothing.

We need new minds, new voices (in the Jaynesian sense), new conceptions, a derivation of an autochthonous quintessence and an unconditional revision of the certain. Despite that nearly no one cares what I think, I am working on this. As you all know, I’d rather be right than applauded.

Here’s to our new minds. I’m trying to build one. It’s no easy task.

american liberal feminism is a fucking death cult pic.twitter.com/4ufrbidobo

— Eleanor Robertson (@marrowing) February 23, 2019

Alas, it is true. Neoliberalism-infected, patriarchal apologist and good for absolutely nothing, except to help a few more well-off white women “lean in.”