Tea at Trianon: Because Men Are Dangerous

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Because Men Are Dangerous

From the Daily Wire:

Allow me to illustrate. Let's start with a common leftist talking point that has been repeated with increasing frequency and hysteria in recent weeks. We'll go from there, following the logical steps that they have laid out for us, and we'll see where this Ferris wheel of circular logic takes us:

-Step One. We are told that "all men must be regarded as potential monsters to be feared." It's not that all men are actively dangerous, but that "rape culture" and patriarchy ingrains in all men the latent possibility of "violence and harm." Men are inherently flawed in a way unique to them; a way that makes them, all of them — "yes, all men" — agents of misogyny and therefore a danger to women and society as whole. This is not a fringe idea on the Left. This is what's taught on college campuses and spouted by the media without shame or hesitation. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: A continuing trend toward the breaking down of the family and male hierarchy in society. There has been a trend toward feminization of men over the last 75 years. It invades and pervades in almost every aspect of our society and has become detrimental in the formation of boys into fully functional responsible men.; December 6, 2017 at 6:02:00 PM EST