Giving my girls cell phones with full data plans because my wife insisted they have phones (for emergencies) was the biggest mistake I made in raising them as it immediately sucked them into social media and anything else their friend group exposed them too. Sucked the joy right out of their lives. They are all dealing with these exposure problems even today. Fortunately my wife and I were not of the medical community mindset for them or I fear that they could have easily committed suicide. The oldest married last year and is currently trying to figure out how to communicate with her husband. If it wasn't for a relationship with the Lord I'm certain they would have hit the rocks by now.
i always think that the purpose of fathers is to stand strong against the worst indulgent instincts of mothers. next time your wife insists on something you know to be wrong, hold your ground. i realize this is old fashioned but jesus, most of this woke bullshit comes from women, sad to say.
i recently heard a Triggernometry podcast where the mother thought she had, not one, but two trans sons! what are the odds? how about ZERO. she talked about her background, how she's was all into social justice stuff in college and went along with every "latest thing." she talked about her "partner" and i thought immediately, her partner is another woman and yes, there was no MAN around to say, "hey, doll, you aren't butchering MY sons."
happily, they only socially transitioned their two boys; they hadn't gotten to the drugs and surgery stuff yet. one day suddenly, she realized that she was in a cult and that her two sons were in fact boys and hoped that her partner would agree.
the sons said "well mom, this was all your idea. you're the one who started calling me a girl" and she was heartsick when she realized that she had imposed this on her boys. now she's an anonymous whistle blower.
this is all well and good, but i have to wonder when she'll take up another wacko belief and impose another cult fantasy on her children.
then again, men have become so pussified these days...
Sadly, a lot of women will leave you if you hold your ground on this kind of stuff. Even intelligent women who are somewhat intellectual. Until it becomes *popular* to not give kids cell phones, not go along with the hypersexual, feminist/materialist agenda, most women are just too afraid to risk social alienation by allowing you to lay the law down. Which means men must be willing to lose their primary emotional support and sexual access to have any sort of honor or integrity. And also risk the ability to raise his child, of course! But so few women are even having children with the man present, or further willing to make the sacrifices necessary to keep the man present -- including tolerating more socially conservative views and a more disciplined household, along with his occasional anger -- that this is becoming a moot point.
As Bray states often, we are incentivizing a flippant, fickle, and opportunistic attitude towards man-woman romantic relationships, whereby the man (in particular) is completely disposable/interchangeable and isn't neccesssary to raise children, provide and protect, etc. So as a man you either accept your role as the permanent beta or you stand your ground and more often than not lose your family. Some of the advice you'll see online for men is to stand your ground and that women find that attractive, etc. But that only works in the courting stages when there is more romantic love chemicals floating around. Once that wears off, most women will run at the first sign of trouble, including over disagreeing about parenting style similar to this issue. And all her friends will kiss her ass and support her decision to throw you in the trash, while your friends will be sad the relationship ended and recognize her humanity. This pattern has played out so many times now, it's becoming really really old. And I'm becoming really, really tired.
Yes, I listened to this. Tip of the iceberg. The future is bleak unless you see the manipulation. My daughter is unjabbed and aware. Looking for an unjabbed, awake man to keep this circle of life going in the right direction!
@iwonder - Communication is a complicated activity even outside marriage. The DiSC profile points that 3 out of 4 people you interact with will have a different communication style. This awareness of the 4 major communication groups and the need to flex your style can go a long way to effective communication. It may help you with coaching your son-in-law. Work with him and help him develop his communication skills and it will pay benefits to their marriage and likely his career. I've found that is probably the most useful soft skills training I've had at work. The DiSC profile is here: https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/
Good luck and thank you for not giving up on your kids.
Don’t you know this makes you transphobic?? People on the left wonder how people could vote for a guy like Trump. Well, the contents of this article are exhibit 1.
Transphobic or drag-queen-story-hour-for-1st- graders-phobic? There’s a difference, but perhaps you haven’t parsed that out. At first I thought you were kidding, but that would require a sense of humor, which would require a certain level of intelligence. On top of that, it’s normal to be afraid of destructive phenomena, like terrorism, pedophilia, nuclear war, or Tony Fauci.
Don't you know your comment shows you have been sucked into the Matrix and your brain imploded?
OF COURSE, anyone who questions the bizarre culture we see these days votes for Trump. And the idea that someone votes for Trump explains every single thing about them, absolutely. Human beings are only cardboard cutouts at this point. Maybe you'd like to burn some of them...
Normally I am. Today I am feeling particularly sad. Sorry I bit your face off, but it's not good to see that the Divide and Conquer is working so well.
I hate to see it as well. I was good with the live and let live thing until one side(the one I used to be a part of but can no longer associate with) decided they only believed in freedom of choice for their side. And, since they have their hands on pretty much every lever of power in this country at the moment, pulled those levers, despite obvious constitutional issues, to ruin people’s lives.
Well, well, well...since I'm occasionally the religious one here, this fits perfectly with what CS Lewis wrote about sexuality like forever ago. (I mean, even in the '40s they were starting to wonder what was happening with people and their behavior.) He compared it to food, too:
“There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.”
Oh, if only Clive Staples could have seen what was coming. And little did he know that the food analogy would become acutely appropriate, too. I mean, we all know our food today is pretty stripped of nutrients. Fast food, packaged food, artificially altered and dyed food have changed the way we function and destroyed our gut and ability to absorb the nutrients that are even still available. Some people will eat and eat and eat and just gain crazy weight, because they're not absorbing the nutrients their body needs, so the instinct to eat never settles down. (Some celiac people that I know come to mind. And that fast food lady. Holy cow.)
So has sex become all self-indulgence, devoid of any meaning (ie, nutrients), and that draining of meaning is leaving us empty and losing even the ability to actually desire anything real? It's a good question. And a scary one, as "they" push us towards the metaverse and virtual reality, where nothing is real.
CS Lewis also said, "There are people who want to keep our sex instinct inflamed in order to make money out of us. Because, of course, a man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales-resistance."
Now ain't that the truth.
Eat green vegetables. Real meat. Develop a faithful relationship with a partner and have lots of sex. Have kids, too. Walk barefoot on the beach, or just in the dirt. And find a connection to God. Humanity might literally depend on it.
I’m on day 3 of a 7 day camping trip. I get about an hour a day to catch up with the world on my phone.
This essay made me want to smash it with a rock, but the comments brought me back.
Speaking of real food, I’m the cook for this trip and most meals have been 4-5 real ingredients not including seasoning. The simple meat and vegetables taste so much better and nourish us completely. We have physically demanding activities but don’t get faint and grumpy like it’s been three hours since the last drive through.
All these great meals and not one food selfie, just a few landscapes and action shots to document the experience.
That sounds AMAZING. Unless you’re backpacking, then carting the food around sounds brutal. Haha!
I’m not much of a seafood person, but once took a week-long river rafting trip, and the food prepared on the trail by the guides is to this day some of the most amazing food I’ve ever eaten. And I know it wasn’t that complicated. And included fish. Nature makes everything better.
Pervasive hypersexualization has become bad marketing. Instead of "freeing" people as the proponents claim the constant excess just grosses people out. Removing all magic and intimacy from sex kills the joy. What a surprise.
At first I thought this was heading into French philosophical sophistry, or at least a French parfum commercial vibe, but then it snapped back into the grid. The people talking about “it” all the time usually aren’t doing it, regardless of what “it” is- getting laid, making money, being in the in crowd, etc..
Our culture tells everybody: “Hey you can do anything you want, if it’s hedonistic and trite! You are free, sort of. That’s right- any bad behavior you fancy can be yours- it’s cool! You can be an addict! We will give you needles and NARCAN. You can 💩 in the street, yo! You can give someone HIV and you don’t need to say nuffin’ You can be a criminal and get a statue when you OD and someone else goes to jail! You can be cosmically incompetent and win the Nobel Prize! You can be a misanthrope! ( Driving to the range this morning to exercise my trigger finger and spew carbonaceous pollution so as to kill the planet😮, I was privileged to see a neighbor’s license plate holder sporting the Platonic aphorism “Eat My Ass”. Yeah, that’s right neighborly. Who does that? At lunch later I came across a not so young lady sporting a Tammi Fae Baker facial makeup tribute and a public service announcement t-shirt proclaiming: “ No Beard, No Booty!”. I guess she likes hairy people with penises, formerly known as men. And now we don’t have to ask her what her type is, thus saving everybody valuable time so we can drive right over in our Teslas and eat some ass at drag queen story hour! 🎉!!
What our hyper commercialized, oh so naughty faux free society won’t sell you however are the following items- confidence, true love, non-sexual affection, trust, friendship, self-reliance, excellence, persistence, decency, or judgment.
No control points with that stuff.
We are a decadent bunch, but we aren’t having any fun.
wayback in the early 2000s I was friends with a sex columnist. she had all the philosophy of sex positive liberation and all the gadgets and sex toys you could imagine. she also happened to be completely frigid and sexless and she didn't take care of her body at all.  The posturing was over compensation for a massive lack of libido
Oct 16, 2022·edited Oct 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray
Drag queen performances directed at children suck the joy out of everyone who watches them. Why on earth would ANYONE think that's appropriate for kids? Inappropriate for pretty much everyone, IMO. Who really wants to watch overdressed men pretending to be women anyway? My opinion; ymmv.
Second only to everyone's fear of being called a racist is to be called a prude. I don't have that fear, happily. Unfortunately, I believe many women do fear being thought uptight. There have to be women out there who aim for marriage and children and the dignity of women. Somehow, they are discovered by a lucky man and take the leap together. But even many married women see nothing wrong with Drag Queen Story Hours in local libraries. It is the coming thing with librarians agreeing to it right and left. I do despair at times at women's changing views on what children should be exposed to.
The latter might be contributing to the former according to dailyclout.io team.
"prostate problems, erectile dysfunction, and functional impotence found in an untitled Pfizer adverse events document (filename: “125742_S1_M5_5351_c4591001-interim-mth6-adverse-events)"
Giving my girls cell phones with full data plans because my wife insisted they have phones (for emergencies) was the biggest mistake I made in raising them as it immediately sucked them into social media and anything else their friend group exposed them too. Sucked the joy right out of their lives. They are all dealing with these exposure problems even today. Fortunately my wife and I were not of the medical community mindset for them or I fear that they could have easily committed suicide. The oldest married last year and is currently trying to figure out how to communicate with her husband. If it wasn't for a relationship with the Lord I'm certain they would have hit the rocks by now.
i always think that the purpose of fathers is to stand strong against the worst indulgent instincts of mothers. next time your wife insists on something you know to be wrong, hold your ground. i realize this is old fashioned but jesus, most of this woke bullshit comes from women, sad to say.
i recently heard a Triggernometry podcast where the mother thought she had, not one, but two trans sons! what are the odds? how about ZERO. she talked about her background, how she's was all into social justice stuff in college and went along with every "latest thing." she talked about her "partner" and i thought immediately, her partner is another woman and yes, there was no MAN around to say, "hey, doll, you aren't butchering MY sons."
happily, they only socially transitioned their two boys; they hadn't gotten to the drugs and surgery stuff yet. one day suddenly, she realized that she was in a cult and that her two sons were in fact boys and hoped that her partner would agree.
the sons said "well mom, this was all your idea. you're the one who started calling me a girl" and she was heartsick when she realized that she had imposed this on her boys. now she's an anonymous whistle blower.
this is all well and good, but i have to wonder when she'll take up another wacko belief and impose another cult fantasy on her children.
then again, men have become so pussified these days...
Sadly, a lot of women will leave you if you hold your ground on this kind of stuff. Even intelligent women who are somewhat intellectual. Until it becomes *popular* to not give kids cell phones, not go along with the hypersexual, feminist/materialist agenda, most women are just too afraid to risk social alienation by allowing you to lay the law down. Which means men must be willing to lose their primary emotional support and sexual access to have any sort of honor or integrity. And also risk the ability to raise his child, of course! But so few women are even having children with the man present, or further willing to make the sacrifices necessary to keep the man present -- including tolerating more socially conservative views and a more disciplined household, along with his occasional anger -- that this is becoming a moot point.
As Bray states often, we are incentivizing a flippant, fickle, and opportunistic attitude towards man-woman romantic relationships, whereby the man (in particular) is completely disposable/interchangeable and isn't neccesssary to raise children, provide and protect, etc. So as a man you either accept your role as the permanent beta or you stand your ground and more often than not lose your family. Some of the advice you'll see online for men is to stand your ground and that women find that attractive, etc. But that only works in the courting stages when there is more romantic love chemicals floating around. Once that wears off, most women will run at the first sign of trouble, including over disagreeing about parenting style similar to this issue. And all her friends will kiss her ass and support her decision to throw you in the trash, while your friends will be sad the relationship ended and recognize her humanity. This pattern has played out so many times now, it's becoming really really old. And I'm becoming really, really tired.
Yes, I listened to this. Tip of the iceberg. The future is bleak unless you see the manipulation. My daughter is unjabbed and aware. Looking for an unjabbed, awake man to keep this circle of life going in the right direction!
So sorry for your kids.
@iwonder - Communication is a complicated activity even outside marriage. The DiSC profile points that 3 out of 4 people you interact with will have a different communication style. This awareness of the 4 major communication groups and the need to flex your style can go a long way to effective communication. It may help you with coaching your son-in-law. Work with him and help him develop his communication skills and it will pay benefits to their marriage and likely his career. I've found that is probably the most useful soft skills training I've had at work. The DiSC profile is here: https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/
Good luck and thank you for not giving up on your kids.
"DiSC" training/profiles are pseudo science.
Don’t you know this makes you transphobic?? People on the left wonder how people could vote for a guy like Trump. Well, the contents of this article are exhibit 1.
Transphobic or drag-queen-story-hour-for-1st- graders-phobic? There’s a difference, but perhaps you haven’t parsed that out. At first I thought you were kidding, but that would require a sense of humor, which would require a certain level of intelligence. On top of that, it’s normal to be afraid of destructive phenomena, like terrorism, pedophilia, nuclear war, or Tony Fauci.
I assumed that it was a nicely executed piece of deep sarcasm, but maybe I got that one wrong.
You were correct in your assumption, sir. And thank you for noticing and the complement on the sarcasm 🤣
Whew!
Huh. I was kidding. It is called sarcasm and the author figured that out. Second time I have been called stupid over this comment lol.
Poe's Law, blue ribbon winner.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe%27s%20Law
Don't you know your comment shows you have been sucked into the Matrix and your brain imploded?
OF COURSE, anyone who questions the bizarre culture we see these days votes for Trump. And the idea that someone votes for Trump explains every single thing about them, absolutely. Human beings are only cardboard cutouts at this point. Maybe you'd like to burn some of them...
Geezuz.
You seem like a pleasant person.
Normally I am. Today I am feeling particularly sad. Sorry I bit your face off, but it's not good to see that the Divide and Conquer is working so well.
I hate to see it as well. I was good with the live and let live thing until one side(the one I used to be a part of but can no longer associate with) decided they only believed in freedom of choice for their side. And, since they have their hands on pretty much every lever of power in this country at the moment, pulled those levers, despite obvious constitutional issues, to ruin people’s lives.
Maybe I was too quick to decide that you are a brainless creep!!!!
Sorry. I am enveloped in darkness today, but it's starting to ebb.
Peace, with apologies.
Well, well, well...since I'm occasionally the religious one here, this fits perfectly with what CS Lewis wrote about sexuality like forever ago. (I mean, even in the '40s they were starting to wonder what was happening with people and their behavior.) He compared it to food, too:
“There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.”
Oh, if only Clive Staples could have seen what was coming. And little did he know that the food analogy would become acutely appropriate, too. I mean, we all know our food today is pretty stripped of nutrients. Fast food, packaged food, artificially altered and dyed food have changed the way we function and destroyed our gut and ability to absorb the nutrients that are even still available. Some people will eat and eat and eat and just gain crazy weight, because they're not absorbing the nutrients their body needs, so the instinct to eat never settles down. (Some celiac people that I know come to mind. And that fast food lady. Holy cow.)
So has sex become all self-indulgence, devoid of any meaning (ie, nutrients), and that draining of meaning is leaving us empty and losing even the ability to actually desire anything real? It's a good question. And a scary one, as "they" push us towards the metaverse and virtual reality, where nothing is real.
CS Lewis also said, "There are people who want to keep our sex instinct inflamed in order to make money out of us. Because, of course, a man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales-resistance."
Now ain't that the truth.
Eat green vegetables. Real meat. Develop a faithful relationship with a partner and have lots of sex. Have kids, too. Walk barefoot on the beach, or just in the dirt. And find a connection to God. Humanity might literally depend on it.
I’m on day 3 of a 7 day camping trip. I get about an hour a day to catch up with the world on my phone.
This essay made me want to smash it with a rock, but the comments brought me back.
Speaking of real food, I’m the cook for this trip and most meals have been 4-5 real ingredients not including seasoning. The simple meat and vegetables taste so much better and nourish us completely. We have physically demanding activities but don’t get faint and grumpy like it’s been three hours since the last drive through.
All these great meals and not one food selfie, just a few landscapes and action shots to document the experience.
That sounds AMAZING. Unless you’re backpacking, then carting the food around sounds brutal. Haha!
I’m not much of a seafood person, but once took a week-long river rafting trip, and the food prepared on the trail by the guides is to this day some of the most amazing food I’ve ever eaten. And I know it wasn’t that complicated. And included fish. Nature makes everything better.
I freeze dry my food and can carry a week's worth in my backpack. All home cooked meals, freeze dried and sealed in mylar bags.
Amazing. Those freeze driers are so expensive though! Do you have a way to do this without a 6K drier?
I could backpack about 300 yds with the kitchen setup I have, and it would take me 10 trips.
This is my first elk camp and I’m grateful to be shown the ropes by the old folks, so I offered to be the camp cook.
Does watching the Food Network count? 🤣
24/7???? Probably. 😂
Pervasive hypersexualization has become bad marketing. Instead of "freeing" people as the proponents claim the constant excess just grosses people out. Removing all magic and intimacy from sex kills the joy. What a surprise.
Turning away from this stuff helps a lot. Loving another person, in person, is the way.
Destroy the TV - that is crucial to maintaining sanity.
I did it 15 yrs ago.
When there is a TV in the house all the authority drains in its direction.
At first I thought this was heading into French philosophical sophistry, or at least a French parfum commercial vibe, but then it snapped back into the grid. The people talking about “it” all the time usually aren’t doing it, regardless of what “it” is- getting laid, making money, being in the in crowd, etc..
Our culture tells everybody: “Hey you can do anything you want, if it’s hedonistic and trite! You are free, sort of. That’s right- any bad behavior you fancy can be yours- it’s cool! You can be an addict! We will give you needles and NARCAN. You can 💩 in the street, yo! You can give someone HIV and you don’t need to say nuffin’ You can be a criminal and get a statue when you OD and someone else goes to jail! You can be cosmically incompetent and win the Nobel Prize! You can be a misanthrope! ( Driving to the range this morning to exercise my trigger finger and spew carbonaceous pollution so as to kill the planet😮, I was privileged to see a neighbor’s license plate holder sporting the Platonic aphorism “Eat My Ass”. Yeah, that’s right neighborly. Who does that? At lunch later I came across a not so young lady sporting a Tammi Fae Baker facial makeup tribute and a public service announcement t-shirt proclaiming: “ No Beard, No Booty!”. I guess she likes hairy people with penises, formerly known as men. And now we don’t have to ask her what her type is, thus saving everybody valuable time so we can drive right over in our Teslas and eat some ass at drag queen story hour! 🎉!!
What our hyper commercialized, oh so naughty faux free society won’t sell you however are the following items- confidence, true love, non-sexual affection, trust, friendship, self-reliance, excellence, persistence, decency, or judgment.
No control points with that stuff.
We are a decadent bunch, but we aren’t having any fun.
And I'm 100% on board with this sentence, which is exactly what I meant: "We are a decadent bunch, but we aren’t having any fun."
“ No Beard, No Booty!”
(Everyone starts shaving)
The word I wish I had added to this one is "commodification." It drains everything.
Very well articulated comment that is rare to see these days, unfortunately.
wayback in the early 2000s I was friends with a sex columnist. she had all the philosophy of sex positive liberation and all the gadgets and sex toys you could imagine. she also happened to be completely frigid and sexless and she didn't take care of her body at all.  The posturing was over compensation for a massive lack of libido
These folks don't experience/enjoy life; their lives are simply different genres of performance art.
You don't have the money or the guns to make me watch that McDonald's video.
You are very wise.
Can’t do it.
Me neither.
Drag queen performances directed at children suck the joy out of everyone who watches them. Why on earth would ANYONE think that's appropriate for kids? Inappropriate for pretty much everyone, IMO. Who really wants to watch overdressed men pretending to be women anyway? My opinion; ymmv.
I feel sorry for these lost people. Thank God I have a devoted husband, to whom I am also devoted.
Fewer and fewer people have that, and it's as important as anything you could have.
Second only to everyone's fear of being called a racist is to be called a prude. I don't have that fear, happily. Unfortunately, I believe many women do fear being thought uptight. There have to be women out there who aim for marriage and children and the dignity of women. Somehow, they are discovered by a lucky man and take the leap together. But even many married women see nothing wrong with Drag Queen Story Hours in local libraries. It is the coming thing with librarians agreeing to it right and left. I do despair at times at women's changing views on what children should be exposed to.
Seems to me it's the same disease as the long lines to get vaxxed... Be part of the GROUP.
And the group is being exterminated. :(
The latter might be contributing to the former according to dailyclout.io team.
"prostate problems, erectile dysfunction, and functional impotence found in an untitled Pfizer adverse events document (filename: “125742_S1_M5_5351_c4591001-interim-mth6-adverse-events)"
Suicidal birds of a feather flock together.
I heard Jay Leno tell a joke about how bad it has gotten. He said jokingly to Hugh Heffner, "Heff, you've won! Pull your people back."
You got me.
imagine mutilating your son for a reality TV show!