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The future belongs to Mennonites, Mormons, Muslims and Orthodox Jews

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In my day, we did stuff. We used to shoot things. We made things. We broke things. We fixed things. We burned things. We drove things. We drank. We cussed. We learned. We chewed. We partied. We dated. We . . . well, you get the point. We did stuff.

Not anymore. Shooting is politically incorrect unless the target is a businessman or a conservative figure. Nobody makes anything – they do that in China. Fixing stuff isn’t cost efficient – you just buy a new one. Drinking is down. Dating is done alone in the basement on the internet.

And the stuff that went with dating is down, too. Remember the population explosion? Well, it’s time to forget it. The latest and greatest explosion is de-population.

The worldwide birthrate is barely enough to replace us. In Europe, America, China, Japan, South Korea and most of the rest of Asia and South America, it’s less than what is necessary to replace us. In most parts of the world, humans are on the road to extinction.

Babies are passe, restrictive, demanding, expensive, unappreciative and unappreciated. “Be fruitful and multiply” has been replaced with “Let’s buy a Tesla and drive to Italy!”

As it turns out, people never did like babies much. They had them for the same reasons they had abortions – because men liked sex and women were too lazy to practice birth control.

Three things have changed – one in women, one in both women and men, and one in men.

First, women have come a long way, baby, and not just in taking up smoking and then quitting. They’ve learned contraception. Yes, it took about 60 years, but it happened. Women are no longer too lazy to practice birth control.

Second, both women and men are more wary about sexually transmitted diseases. There are consequences to having sex like rabbits with whatever can’t outrun them. Unsurprisingly, exchanging bodily fluids is a great way to exchange pathogens who are along for the ride.

Third, men are losing their mojo. The average male testosterone level has been declining for two generations. The average peaked when I was a young man, and that’s not just because I personally kept it up (I’m speaking of the average).

No, the reason male testosterone levels are declining is that young “men” today are pussies. The reasons for that are debatable, but everyone knows it’s true. Young men today think of sex with a woman the way they think of changing the oil in the car all alone. It’s messy, it’s smelly, it’s uncomfortable, and they don’t really know what’s down there anyway.  

Ah, but there are a few fecund oases in the barren wasteland. Those oases are inhabited by certain religious tribes such as the Mennonites, the Mormons, the Muslims and the Orthodox Jews. (We could do a lot worse than those four.) The fertility rate among those tribes is double to triple the average in the world.

Not very long ago, the Catholics were one of those tribes. Not anymore. The fertility rate in Catholic Italy is among the lowest in Europe. The strictures on contraception still promulgated by the Vatican are now honored mainly in their breach. When it comes to contraception, most Catholic endeavor to prove the truism “We’re all sinners.”

So, what’s the reason for the fruitfulness of the Mennonites, Mormons, Muslims and Orthodox Jews?

It’s their devotion to family life. With that devotion to family life comes a devotion to families, and with that devotion to families comes a devotion to having one. That means children.

I’m guessing that this devotion to family life makes the members of these groups happier than the rest of us, even though that happiness is sometimes not outwardly visible. Whether that happiness rooted in a shared devotion to family life will enable these disparate religions to get along with one another, after the rest of us are gone, is another question.

But happy or not, these groups are the ones that will survive. The meek don’t inherit the earth; children do. The future belongs to those who show up.

Among the election losers are men pretending to be men-pretending-to-be-women

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Last week’s election had a lot of losers, including Democrats in general; Generals who are Democrats to whom President Trump promises to offer mandatory early retirement; the formerly mainstream media which is now reduced to a dried-up side-stream that collectively cannot match the rapidly roaring ratings of the clickbait tabloid called Fox News; childless cat ladies; and the Pelosi/Obama Axis of Evil.

And men pretending to be women. More precisely, it’s men pretending to be men-pretending-to-be-women. Let me explain.

Men have pretended to be women for as long as there’s been men and women. Heck, I confess that I once dressed up as a woman for Halloween back in my college days before it was even fashionable. It was fun and funny, though it didn’t give me my jollies. 

Other men apparently do get their jollies by pretending to be women, and they do so 365 days a year, or maybe just 300, or maybe just 11 or 12.

There’s a technical/scientific/medical name for such men. They’re properly called “men-pretending-to-be-women.”

I have no problem with men-pretending-to-be-women. It all seems pretty harmless to me, up to a point.

I’m even OK with them discretely using the women’s bathrooms. I’m told that, for practical reasons, women’s bathrooms have no urinals for the women to stand in front of as they do their No. 1 business. Instead, they have only stalls, like the ones in the men’s bathrooms for use when a man does No. 2 business, or when he just wants a little privacy.

That means there are two automatic constraints on men-pretending-to-be-women in the women’s bathrooms. One, they are not able to see the privates of real women. Two, they are not able to display to women the privates of themselves.

It’s true that men-pretending-to-be-women in the women’s bathrooms can see real women using the bathroom mirror to tidy their makeup. But that’s a regular scene outside the women’s bathrooms, too. You can hardly pass a mirror in public without seeing that sight.

I assume, without any specialized knowledge, that men-pretending-to-be-women have been using women’s bathrooms for millennia. Nobody objected, because nobody knew. Even now, nobody would object, because nobody would know.

But here’s what’s different now. They want you to know. Not just abstractly, but concretely and in each and every instance.

Their jollies apparently hinge on not just being men in the women’s bathroom, and not even just on being men-pretending-to-be-women in the women’s bathroom. It goes beyond that. It’s all about being men-pretending-to-be-women in the women’s bathroom, and the women in the bathroom knowing it.

The way for men-pretending-to-be-women to ensure that women in the women’s bathroom are aware that they are really men, is to make sure their costume is unconvincing. They don’t truly make themselves look like women – if they did, they’d fail to convey that they’re not. Instead, they make themselves look like men pretending to be women, so that the women know they’re not.

They’re motivated by the same motivations as a public exhibitionist.

Another way to express the point is that they’re men pretending – deliberately badly – to be men-pretending-to-be-women. That’s the formula that apparently produces their women’s bathroom jollies – and the discomfiture of the women in the bathroom, which is evidently part of their jollies.

Jollies are fine. There’s a reason they’re called jollies, after all. But invading the privacy or comfort of other people to get your jollies is not fine, even when – especially when – that invasion is part of the jollies.

And when the women’s bathroom in question is a girl’s bathroom in a schoolhouse, it’s especially not fine.

Similar emotions are at work in the men-pretending-to-be-women in women’s sports. The discomfort and invasion of privacy they inflict on real women – and the stealing of their medals – is part of their jolly gig. Reports are rampant that these men-pretending-to-be-women are not shy in the women’s locker rooms, for example.

To them, all of that – the stealing of medals, the invasion of privacy, and the discomfort they inflict on their female victims – is not an unfortunate side effect of their routine; it’s their prime objective.

Americans are fed up with this new phenomenon of men pretending to be men-pretending-to-be-women in women’s bathrooms and women’s sports. Last week’s election was consistent with that.

It remains to be seen whether Democrats will get the message. It’s quite possible that many of the far-left ones share the emotions of the men pretending to be men-pretending-to-be-women. Namely, they get a certain satisfaction in inflicting discomfort and embarrassment on ordinary American women.

My message to them is: OK, have your jollies. But don’t expect us to vote for you.

Will we use reverse discrimination to “correct” the gender gap the way we disastrously “corrected” the racial gap?

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A persistent myth is that, for the same job, women in America are paid only 84 cents for every dollar that men are paid.

I explain below, first, why that myth is false and, second, why it’s dangerous.

There are the several reasons why it’s false. The figures use a category of “full time work” for their comparisons. That’s defined as any work over 35 hours per week. That means a man working 55 hours a week is compared to a woman working 36. So, a man making, say, $30/hour for those 55 hours for a total of $1650/week is deemed to be making $210 more for a “full time” job than a woman making $40/hour for 36 hours for a total of $1440/week for a “full time” job – even though in point of fact, the woman is making $5/hour more.

It’s not like this all balances out in the end because women and men overall work the same number of hours. They don’t. The high-hour work is mainly by men.

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