As a woman, as a farmer, and as a mother of women, I read this aloud this morning over coffee with my Gen X husband, a good man through and through. Great letter! I kept saying “Yes!” after every paragraph - isn’t it all so obvious to everyone?!? If I see one more Barbie-font Kamala 2024 t-Shirt I just might grab that woman (cause only women are wearing these ridiculous things) and make them read this - hello?!? What year is it and why are most women oblivious to how they are being manipulated by all of this bullshit?? (Sigh) And then I will go back to work, side-by-side with my man, doing work that both sexes can do and then leaving him to carry the physically heavier loads while I start dinner… thanks for a good conversation starter, as always. Enjoy this misty day!
Yes! We are, of course, best when we work together and recognize our own strengths and weaknesses. How odd that, in a world with ever less palpable talent, people are claiming not only that they are extremely talented (see: Australian break dancer), but that they are talented in everything. Perhaps much of the effort spent proclaiming one’s talent could be spent developing talent instead.
I like this comment (my like button on comments does not work for some reason).
As a female married farmer of baby boomer age, I too understand the importance of the roles involved in a partnership. I was raised by a divorced working mother and did not come to hate men, even though I had many reasons to. The far-left educational system in Canada indoctrinated our daughters and they bought into every ideological bent Critical Theory the system could throw at them. 5 decades in the making! It's shameful.
Heather, a really, really special piece. You have a unique voice that can eloquently convey these points unassailably. Brava and thanks for doing this.
There are plenty of competent women of various pigment levels that could have been considered, so the only reason I believe Harris was chosen is to have an excuse to attack female competency. A female leader who raises the bar for women will be attacked from both sides, by those women who want all the benefits without the work, and by men who despise women. USMC LtCol Kate Germano comes to mind.
You know what? I really don't care about feminism any more. Equality from the point of view of U.S. law is here. This also goes for the other nooks of intersectional-ism (not a real word). As it was true for you, Heather, I know women have no doors closed to them on account of their sex.
It has been noted that policy is often driven by loud minorities. The smaller the group is in society the louder it has to be to have any effect. And it seems to be human nature treat the loudest and shrillest arguments as the most valid. In our individual disputes most of us learn that volume does not equal validity but this doesn't seem to be the case when different groups interact. A loud minority sways a more sedate majority every time. And war is the loudest argument of all that can only be answered by a louder response. Humans in groups seem quite willing to do what only a tiny fraction of such a group would be willing to do alone.
I read Badham’s ramblings as a call to arms (perhaps alluded to as man’s base instinct) compared to Heather’s call to logic. Thanks Heather for me pulling out of Badham’s angry world.
Although I adore when you get snarky in all the right places, this is a measured and well reasoned piece that hopefully has some kind of resonance for those who've been brainwashed. As Mattias Desmet has said, we need to keep speaking the truth until the mass formation finally begins to crumble
I think with regard to politics in particular, it is both possible, and perhaps necessary, to separate the teams from one another, so that they are not merely being defined in opposition to the other. What are the actual merits of individual people running for office, or the merits of individual positions, as opposed to the fear-mongering that comes along with "you have to do this, because look at the alternative(s)."
"women get the privilege of acting like men at their stupidest. How awesome for us all." I couldn't have said it better -- and I've been thinking it for decades.
Yes! In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Steve Sailer shows graphs of U.S. government weekly death statistics which show sudden, ca. 40%, increases in African American road deaths and deaths due to homicide (both caused primarily by poorer behaviour by African Americans) which began with the BLM-driven campaign to defund the police following the death of George Floyd: https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-steve-sailer 10:00 onwards. At 12:40 he shows a graph showing that increase in homicides strongly affected only the already high rate for African Americans, only slightly the lower rate for Hispanics and not at all the still lower rate for non-Hispanic whites. Similarly for road deaths (16:00). It is possible that some of these increases were caused by COVID-19 and the pandemic response, including the so-called vaccines and economic downturn.
The graphs cover about 18 months and show (my estimates, averaging over this period) about 70 extra African American deaths a week due to homicide and about 30 a week due to road accidents. Over 78 weeks this would be about 8000 extra deaths.
This would have been partly due to actual defunding of police, but also due to police reducing their efforts in an effort to avoid criticism and/or in sympathy with the viewpoint that their efforts were excessive and unwarranted.
While this was an appalling crime, committed in full view of people who tried, without using force, to prevent it, this single incident does not show, beyond reasonable doubt, that police kill more Blacks than non-Hispanic whites as a proportion of the population, after correcting for increased interactions they would have with Blacks as a result of higher Black crime rates, such as being 8.6 times as likely to be a murder offender than whites, according to Steve Sailer's analysis of FBI data: https://www.unz.com/isteve/fbi-homicide-data-blacks-account-for-58-of-known-murder-offenders-in-2022.
Since the black homicide death rate is primarily caused by Black offenders, it follows that Black deaths could be reduced by better policing of those Blacks most likely to kill other Blacks.
Instead of suggesting actions which would reduce Black deaths by homicide, the response of activists and then a large proportion of the general public, swept along by mass media and widespread adoption of woke guilt assignment principles, was to argue that there was a high death toll among Blacks due to irresponsible policing, and that the answer was not to improve policing, but to shut it down.
Yet the result was more Black deaths.
The activists were much more interested in assigning guilt to those they hate, fear or want to diminish, than doing something to actually reduce the harm suffered by the people they purport to care about. So it is with some prominent feminists and those they influence.
A much more fruitful approach to improving the health of African Americans would be to raise awareness of the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation, in quantities which while small, are 5 to 10 times those recommended by governments and many doctors. Due to their highly pigmented skin, African Americans have even lower levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D than Americans in general - and their levels are usually less than half of the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) their immune systems need to function properly. Please see the research, and recommendations for supplemental quantities, according to body weight and obesity status, from New Jersey based Professor of Medicine, Sunil Wimalawansa, at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/.
The most important group of people to help is women of childbearing age, since low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (it is made primarily in the liver from ingested or skin-produced vitamin D3) has profound, lasting, impacts on mothers and their developing child. These include greater risk of preeclampsia, pre-term birth, ADHD, autism, schizophrenia and mental retardation: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2. Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D, as measured in "vitamin D" blood tests, is the most important, easily correctable, cause of human ill-health. This is especially so for people with brown or black skin living far from the equator. The impacts include increased risk of sepsis, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C, MS, severe infectious disease, especially COVID-19, auto-immune disorders and dementia: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3.
Another great piece from you. I'm all for anyone voting for who they truly think will do the best job, whichever candidate that happens to be. However, to vote for a woman BECAUSE she is a woman is just as stupid as not voting for a woman because she is a woman. I'm confused as to why so many of my fellow women seem to have trouble understanding that concept.
As a woman, as a farmer, and as a mother of women, I read this aloud this morning over coffee with my Gen X husband, a good man through and through. Great letter! I kept saying “Yes!” after every paragraph - isn’t it all so obvious to everyone?!? If I see one more Barbie-font Kamala 2024 t-Shirt I just might grab that woman (cause only women are wearing these ridiculous things) and make them read this - hello?!? What year is it and why are most women oblivious to how they are being manipulated by all of this bullshit?? (Sigh) And then I will go back to work, side-by-side with my man, doing work that both sexes can do and then leaving him to carry the physically heavier loads while I start dinner… thanks for a good conversation starter, as always. Enjoy this misty day!
Yes! We are, of course, best when we work together and recognize our own strengths and weaknesses. How odd that, in a world with ever less palpable talent, people are claiming not only that they are extremely talented (see: Australian break dancer), but that they are talented in everything. Perhaps much of the effort spent proclaiming one’s talent could be spent developing talent instead.
I like this comment (my like button on comments does not work for some reason).
As a female married farmer of baby boomer age, I too understand the importance of the roles involved in a partnership. I was raised by a divorced working mother and did not come to hate men, even though I had many reasons to. The far-left educational system in Canada indoctrinated our daughters and they bought into every ideological bent Critical Theory the system could throw at them. 5 decades in the making! It's shameful.
"In short, women get the privilege of acting like men at their stupidest. How awesome for us all." Yes; this pretty much says it all!
Heather, a really, really special piece. You have a unique voice that can eloquently convey these points unassailably. Brava and thanks for doing this.
Brilliant!!! People are just plain dumb and Covid turned them even more into sheep…all by design. ALL of it.
There are plenty of competent women of various pigment levels that could have been considered, so the only reason I believe Harris was chosen is to have an excuse to attack female competency. A female leader who raises the bar for women will be attacked from both sides, by those women who want all the benefits without the work, and by men who despise women. USMC LtCol Kate Germano comes to mind.
She was chosen because she was malleable, therefore useful like Biden to the hidden controllers above them.
Yes, incompetence makes for malleability.
You know what? I really don't care about feminism any more. Equality from the point of view of U.S. law is here. This also goes for the other nooks of intersectional-ism (not a real word). As it was true for you, Heather, I know women have no doors closed to them on account of their sex.
A refreshing read. Thank you for once again speaking sanely.
It has been noted that policy is often driven by loud minorities. The smaller the group is in society the louder it has to be to have any effect. And it seems to be human nature treat the loudest and shrillest arguments as the most valid. In our individual disputes most of us learn that volume does not equal validity but this doesn't seem to be the case when different groups interact. A loud minority sways a more sedate majority every time. And war is the loudest argument of all that can only be answered by a louder response. Humans in groups seem quite willing to do what only a tiny fraction of such a group would be willing to do alone.
I read Badham’s ramblings as a call to arms (perhaps alluded to as man’s base instinct) compared to Heather’s call to logic. Thanks Heather for me pulling out of Badham’s angry world.
Although I adore when you get snarky in all the right places, this is a measured and well reasoned piece that hopefully has some kind of resonance for those who've been brainwashed. As Mattias Desmet has said, we need to keep speaking the truth until the mass formation finally begins to crumble
Thank you Zirrus.
I think with regard to politics in particular, it is both possible, and perhaps necessary, to separate the teams from one another, so that they are not merely being defined in opposition to the other. What are the actual merits of individual people running for office, or the merits of individual positions, as opposed to the fear-mongering that comes along with "you have to do this, because look at the alternative(s)."
Absolutely. Instead of running on policies (like RFK does) the rhetoric boils down to one mob voting *against* another. A sad state of affairs indeed
"women get the privilege of acting like men at their stupidest. How awesome for us all." I couldn't have said it better -- and I've been thinking it for decades.
Yes! In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Steve Sailer shows graphs of U.S. government weekly death statistics which show sudden, ca. 40%, increases in African American road deaths and deaths due to homicide (both caused primarily by poorer behaviour by African Americans) which began with the BLM-driven campaign to defund the police following the death of George Floyd: https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-steve-sailer 10:00 onwards. At 12:40 he shows a graph showing that increase in homicides strongly affected only the already high rate for African Americans, only slightly the lower rate for Hispanics and not at all the still lower rate for non-Hispanic whites. Similarly for road deaths (16:00). It is possible that some of these increases were caused by COVID-19 and the pandemic response, including the so-called vaccines and economic downturn.
The graphs cover about 18 months and show (my estimates, averaging over this period) about 70 extra African American deaths a week due to homicide and about 30 a week due to road accidents. Over 78 weeks this would be about 8000 extra deaths.
This would have been partly due to actual defunding of police, but also due to police reducing their efforts in an effort to avoid criticism and/or in sympathy with the viewpoint that their efforts were excessive and unwarranted.
Dr Pierre Kory, who was an expert witness in the George Floyd murder trial, after examining the video evidence, concluded that he was killed by the constraints to his breathing, and not by the high level of fentanyl in his body, to which he had evidently become accustomed. https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/george-floyd-did-not-die-of-a-fentanyl and https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/george-floyds-death-response-to-comments.
While this was an appalling crime, committed in full view of people who tried, without using force, to prevent it, this single incident does not show, beyond reasonable doubt, that police kill more Blacks than non-Hispanic whites as a proportion of the population, after correcting for increased interactions they would have with Blacks as a result of higher Black crime rates, such as being 8.6 times as likely to be a murder offender than whites, according to Steve Sailer's analysis of FBI data: https://www.unz.com/isteve/fbi-homicide-data-blacks-account-for-58-of-known-murder-offenders-in-2022.
A 2016 analysis by African American Professor Roland Fryer (https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-professor-all-hell-broke-loose-study-found-no-racial-bias-police-shootings) found that police were "23.8 percent less likely to shoot at blacks and 8.5 percent less likely to shoot at Hispanics than they were to shoot at whites.". The preprint is: https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-professor-all-hell-broke-loose-study-found-no-racial-bias-police-shootings. The published article's PDF is not freely available: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/701423.
Since the black homicide death rate is primarily caused by Black offenders, it follows that Black deaths could be reduced by better policing of those Blacks most likely to kill other Blacks.
Instead of suggesting actions which would reduce Black deaths by homicide, the response of activists and then a large proportion of the general public, swept along by mass media and widespread adoption of woke guilt assignment principles, was to argue that there was a high death toll among Blacks due to irresponsible policing, and that the answer was not to improve policing, but to shut it down.
Yet the result was more Black deaths.
The activists were much more interested in assigning guilt to those they hate, fear or want to diminish, than doing something to actually reduce the harm suffered by the people they purport to care about. So it is with some prominent feminists and those they influence.
A much more fruitful approach to improving the health of African Americans would be to raise awareness of the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation, in quantities which while small, are 5 to 10 times those recommended by governments and many doctors. Due to their highly pigmented skin, African Americans have even lower levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D than Americans in general - and their levels are usually less than half of the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) their immune systems need to function properly. Please see the research, and recommendations for supplemental quantities, according to body weight and obesity status, from New Jersey based Professor of Medicine, Sunil Wimalawansa, at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/.
The most important group of people to help is women of childbearing age, since low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (it is made primarily in the liver from ingested or skin-produced vitamin D3) has profound, lasting, impacts on mothers and their developing child. These include greater risk of preeclampsia, pre-term birth, ADHD, autism, schizophrenia and mental retardation: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2. Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D, as measured in "vitamin D" blood tests, is the most important, easily correctable, cause of human ill-health. This is especially so for people with brown or black skin living far from the equator. The impacts include increased risk of sepsis, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C, MS, severe infectious disease, especially COVID-19, auto-immune disorders and dementia: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3.
Another great piece from you. I'm all for anyone voting for who they truly think will do the best job, whichever candidate that happens to be. However, to vote for a woman BECAUSE she is a woman is just as stupid as not voting for a woman because she is a woman. I'm confused as to why so many of my fellow women seem to have trouble understanding that concept.
Your writing has such a nice rhythm and you make very good points in this piece. Thank you, Heather.
Its letters like this that made me become a subscriber!
Thankfully, one of the voices of sanity facing the babble of blockheads.
@Tim, “blockheads” is my favorite pejorative…lol!