Observe & Retort

First of all, to illustrate how one-sided our society has become, the word Masculinism is not even recognized as a word by most spell-checkers (MSFT, Google, etc.), meaning that it is not a word. In binary world of gender we have either the masculine or the feminine. Those that are activists for the rights of the feminine (i.e. biological women, do we really need to preface that with "biological"?) are called feminists and their movement is called feminism. Those that advocate for the rights of the masculine side of this binary are not called masculinists... yep not even a word, nor is masculinism. Do you know what are words? Misogynist, patriarchal, chauvinist, and of course bigot. Anyone who tries to represent the interests of men in general are insulted, attacked, smeared and even called 'racists', like that makes any god-damned sense. Doesn't matter if it makes sense so long as said persons are effectively silenced. Yep. And they call anyone politically right

September was a black-out month for blogging. Apologies. Now that October is here, let's get started... A bit more than a decade ago my family started attending a Christian Church on a regular basis. We had previously looked at a couple different churches but the fit was poor. What we found all too often that the message was to simply take things on faith and not to try and understand the deeper meaning if there didn't obviously appear to be one. That's just not how I roll. If all the evidence, logic, and reason point in the opposite direction of what I'm being told I'm going to question it. This new church embraced this thinking and exposed me to a 'higher' theology that lacked the dogmatic assertions of most Christian institutions (though still had some). This thinking is also how I approach just about everything else, including politics. When I look at conservative versus liberal stances on the variety of subjects that separate the two wings I apply l