
Helen Andrews
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author @SentinelBooks, site https://t.co/MCWPKMEbtF
Washington, DC
Joined April 2009
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"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle With two recessions and a...
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Some discussion on this like "Yeah when an academic learns their field is fake the honorable thing is to acknowledge the critiques are correct, what more do you want" and I dunno man, when I was a young man who learned my academic field was fake, I left to go do something real.
Outsider: I have investigated this academic field and found that it is mostly fake. Insider: This essay adds nothing to the discourse. All of these so-called "problems" are discussed in Hamilton and Schwartz’s "Our Entire Field Is Mostly Fake" (2009). You absolute buffoon.
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Fascinating. The ‘Neoborbonici’ school of history seeks to defend the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies against the slanders of liberals such as William Gladstone.
The Risorgimento myth | Gerald Warner https://t.co/Qrs3Pw9PND
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“Free Palestine” isn’t just a call for change in the Middle East. It is also a movement that seeks to remake Western societies. My essay on the anniversary of October 7: https://t.co/g3DZUG1eIS
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Five years ago, chants of “Black Lives Matter” rang out in the streets, and elite institutions underwent a racial reckoning.
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By far the most important implication of the “Great Feminization” thesis is this: If wokeness is the result of demographic feminization, then wokeness will never be over as long as the demographics remain the same.
Amazing. Most speeches from the last NatCon have a few dozen views. “The Great Feminization” is now approaching 100,000. I’m truly grateful to see this important message spreading. A few additional thoughts:
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3. In the NatCon speech, I talk about how fields that achieve a 50-50 gender balance usually don’t stay that way. Once they reach the tipping point of female representation, they get more feminized, which drives men away, and you end up like psychology, which is now
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2. People think the difference between men and women is that men are logical and women are emotional. That’s true, but it’s just a tiny fraction of what “feminization” means. For example, men have the concept of an honorable enemy. Men can engage in conflict with an opponent and
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1. Remember how insane everything got in 2020? That is just a small preview of how things will be when women come to dominate our institutions. Back in the 1970s, a lot of people thought introducing women into institutions wouldn’t change them, or might make them slightly softer
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Amazing. Most speeches from the last NatCon have a few dozen views. “The Great Feminization” is now approaching 100,000. I’m truly grateful to see this important message spreading. A few additional thoughts:
My NatCon speech on the Great Feminization is up to 28K views in one week, by the way. I’m pleasantly surprised by the positive reception and grateful to the many writers and anons whose work on feminization I was able to draw on.
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City planners were among those who descended on the former East Germany: “Those pied pipers arrived and said: Your little village is really kaput, but we promise to build something splendid here. Our people believed it all… So they built sewage plants that were too big, and
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Even after the Wall fell, ordinary East Germans strongly resisted the idea that their society had been totalitarian in the same way as fascism: “Angrily they pronounced that the Nazis left behind mountains of corpses while the GDR created only mountains of secret service files.”
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An East German interviewed in 1998: “Now that the entire Eastern Bloc and the GDR have disappeared, the capitalists can pull the strings, politically and economically. They can have their fling and they can be ruthless. Ten years ago, if West Germany had asked of their people
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I’ve been fascinated by the observation that all of the anti-Trump energy, especially these street protests, has been so dominated by boomer age libs. In talking to them (which I recommend you do if given the chance) I’ve found their beliefs are mostly a hodgepodge of
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This novelist, Laurent Obertone, sounds like a new Houellebecq, but he remains untranslated into English. “What really appeals to many of Obertone’s fans is how close his caricatures of the Bobo Left are to reality, how their self-hating, anti-French masochism leads effectively
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Blast from the past: Back in the 1980s, in Dijon, Hussey was beaten up for talking to a girl in a bar. “My attackers were three Algerians. I knew this because before I was punched in the face I was called a racist and a dog and told not to ‘fuck with Algerians.’”
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The city of Lyon had a street-fighting young right, but the city shut down their bar and their gym (described by its founder as “a sort of youth club for patriots with deep roots in France who are proud of who they are”) “in an attempt to curb the violence and make the city feel
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Hussey arrives an hour late to his meeting with Christophe Guilluy, due to traffic, but Guilluy shrugs, “Nobody ever arrives on time in Paris any more if you use the roads.” “He blamed this on the Socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, whose environmental policies of banning
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He visits Algeria to give a lecture to university students. “The girls wore skirts and make-up and had their hair done up in imitation of their favourite R&B or rap heroines. The lads, too, wore the latest hip-hop fashions… They all agreed that it was not right that the French
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A journalist in Marseilles who works with gangsters: “Smoking [marijuana] with them, he asked what visions they had when they looked out at the waves, the islands and the clouds. Unanimously, the young men saw only ‘kalas,’ naked girls and their breasts and behinds. ‘Guns, tits
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“Macron has long had a deep affection for Marseille. Before taking power, when he was still Minister for the Economy, Macron said that his dream job was to be mayor of Marseille… Macron's love for Marseille has not so far been reciprocated, however. At best, the local
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