Alina, who has two degrees in literature that she doesn’t know what to do with, opens this video with the question: “Does anyone else feel like contemporary novels are written like we’re stupid?” She then proceeds to favour us with her views in a world-weary way that characterises her videos. It’s an interesting discussion – you hope it would be with two degrees – but a little too long and too focused on her demographic – twenty-something girls.
I don’t have much to say about her views because I don’t read contemporary novels. That’s mainly due to my being sick to death of the woke assumptions that are either in the foreground or the background. Now, Alina slings off at a right-winger like me (actually, I’m a Burkean conservative, but I rather doubt Alina knows what that is) who complains about the left-wing bias in contemporary novels.
She says political ideas are an essential part of literature. Well, they are, but that’s not the point. The issue is how political ideas are handled in woke novels and how they characterise their political opposition.
In the first place, they are assumed, which is intellectual surrender or, worse, the woke writer does not possess the ability to justify his ideas philosophically. In the second place, woke writers have no idea of the philosophical underpinnings of a competent, serious conservative writer. Such a philosophical defence is not imaginable.
In another powerful article (below), Janice Fiamengo provides argument and evidence for her claim that women can’t build civilisations, but they can sure wreck them. I would ask the men reading her article to pause and think about, meditate on, and contemplate the case of Matt Taylor and #Shirtstorm.
This is a paradigm case of a vicious, irrational feminist mob attack on a high-achieving man for a triviality. Don’t worry about the astounding scientific achievement Matt Taylor was celebrating. No, talk about his shirt, a shirt, incidentally, gifted to him by a female friend. On this shirt, the feminist mob ballooned a scenario about misogyny that could hardly be contained.
How are men to deal with such frequent feminist mob attacks? They happen all the time. In Australia, we have a permanent feminist media mob that goes into action for a misplaced male comma.
This is a question that men have to think about deeply and carefully. They have to do what feminists have done so successfully over fifty years. Organise and counterattack.
The case of Matt Taylor and #Shirtstorm was the last straw for me.
In 2014, a chorus of angry women and their male enablers roasted British astrophysicist Matt Taylor for wearing an “inappropriate” shirt for a historic occasion. Taylor was part of a European Space Agency team, the Rosetta Mission, that sent a probe four billion miles through space to land on a comet, a journey of ten years.
A number of the commentators hadn’t even looked closely enough at the shirt to see its design.
“The fact that a scientist of any gender, but especially a man, would think it’s a good idea to wear a shirt covered in naked women while representing a major space agency and a significant research project is appalling,” wrote one, failing to realize that none of the characters was naked, “and clearly, he had no idea that he was engaging in exactly the kind of casual sexism that drives women away from STEM.”
‘In moral terms, progressive Anglicans have abandoned natural law for positive law. In natural law there is a concern for final causes—Aristotle’s “that for the sake of which”; a goal, purpose, or final cause guiding an action, a telos—to explain the nature and structure of reality. In positive law there is a belief that the nature and structure of reality can be legislated, established by legal precedent (and positive law has been legislating against natural law since the sexual revolution). Hence progressive Anglicans in the Global North have followed the zeitgeist in abolishing distinctions between male and female, homosexuality and heterosexuality, reproductive system and digestive tract, treating them all as functionally equivalent.’
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The Archbishop of Cant
Michael Giffin, Quadrant Mar 11 2026
Given Anglicanism is the third largest Christian polity in the world behind Catholicism and Orthodoxy, many are wondering why the reception of Dame Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury has been muted. Her gender is part of the reason, of course, but even Rome did not break off ecumenical dialogue with Canterbury over women’s ordination. The deal breaker for Rome was the consecration to the historic episcopate of a practising homosexual in 2003, Gene Robinson, whose “marriage” to his “husband” in 2008 was followed by a “divorce” in 2014. In what can only be called tragic irony, ECUSA (The Episcopal Church in the United States) chose to exhaust its moral capital on the hill of feminism and homosexual rights, wilfully, with open eyes.
(Hint: men should read this – what new thing females are cooking up)
An article by Bianca Farmakis in today’s Australian is titled What Women Really Want. Then comes a subheading: The huge cultural sex shift we all missed. Then a brief description of the article:
‘Steamy gay male romances like Heated Rivalry and Pinion are not anomalies: women in their millions now prefer to watch men loving men on screen [presumably she means men having sex]. But what does this new “heterofatalism” reveal about female desire – and where will it lead?’
I suspect it reveals something bad about men – it’s always something bad about men, these days. And God knows to what catastrophe it will lead. My interest was piqued, and I did some searching. I found this article on Mentalzon:
It’s a feeling that settles in quietly at first, then all at once: a profound, weary disappointment with men in the landscape of modern dating. This isn’t just about one bad date or a single failed relationship. It’s a deeper state of emotional exhaustion, a collapse of hope that has been named heterofatalism. This term captures the fatigue many women feel when their desires for a serious, emotionally invested partnership repeatedly crash against a wall of indifference. It’s not an organized movement, but a shared, unspoken sigh of resignation echoing in a world of shifting social norms and growing pressures.
The Roots of a Modern Malaise
The term itself is relatively new, first coined as “heteropessimism” by researcher Asa Seresin in 2019 to describe a general disappointment with the opposite sex. It has since evolved to more specifically articulate the female experience of disillusionment. The idea quickly found its footing in mainstream conversations, resonating with countless women who felt their experiences were finally being given a name.
This feeling isn’t confined to one corner of the globe; it’s a sentiment that crosses cultural boundaries. At its heart is a mismatch of expectations. Women may hope for emotional cornerstones like support, attention, and care, only to find their partners seem unwilling or unable to provide them. This isn’t just about grand romantic gestures; it’s about the fundamental building blocks of a healthy connection. When even these basics are missing, the result is a slow burn of despondency and resentment.
Of course, this dissatisfaction is a two-way street. Men, too, often express frustration, feeling judged against impossible standards. A cycle of mutual resentment can take hold, with both sides raising their guard and their expectations. But here, we’ll focus on the specific phenomenon of female disappointment and where it stems from.
Females head up Australia’s two biggest airlines. One of those female CEOs has publicly stated that she will follow quota guidelines for recruiting airline staff, including pilots. Pilots will be chosen based on identity rather than competence.
Sorry, I’m not stepping onto a plane without knowing who’s flying it. That will probably never happen again.
Due to unexpected circumstances, I had to shut down my website several months ago. Now that those circumstances no longer hold, I’m back to inform and irritate but mainly to talk about my writing and books. It’ll take me a while to set everything up again.
