Celebrate depopulation and loneliness

 

Celebrating those who embrace a different path and live life on their own terms. Your choices are valid, your life is fulfilling, and your journey is uniquely yours. 💫 pic.twitter.com/PhjKjzrVdp

— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) August 1, 2024

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the irony? Notice this is a young lady urged not to have children. Half the population is men. But women are more vulnerable to the social media fads.

There are a lot of single Philippine women, not because they chose a "child free" lifestyle, but because they are working (usually overseas) to help their families survive.

Lolo's single aunt helped pay his school fees to become a doctor. Lolo migrated to the USA instead of marrying his finace to support his dead brother's family. Multiply this by thousands and you see the problem: No local jobs.

But the Philippines is still above replacement level so the international elites want to encourage childlessness.

So the Inquirer has a lot of articles about relationships, but also a lot discussing pets as if they are children...

Reminds me of the K Drama we are watching right now: Two people were frozen for twenty years and come back to the modern day. And in one scene, the girl is looking aghast at people carrying dogs in diapers and dogs in baby carriages.

I love dogs but they are not children.

and yes, I have cats, but am not a childless cat lady: I am a grandmother who lives with an extended family.

There is a reason for the (now hated) cat woman meme: because they are seen as rejecting the family. '

I recently saw a tweet by a "happy 40 year old" who didn't need kids and was dancing like a teenager to celebrate her freedom and ability to travel and be free to do things she enjoys.

And I wonder: What will she do when she is 70?

The dirty little secret is that a lot of this type of tweeting is by immature people who obey what society wants them to be. 

Reminds me of the clueless girls when I was in college who just wanted to marry and not learn anything to support themselves if they needed a job, because before women's lib that was what society was brainwashing them to do. 

So they married, and then when things got rough, divorced the SOB because being single was the thing to do after women's lib became the in thing.

Today the propaganda is the opposite: career is everything and you don't need family. 

Never mentioned: Women work for less money than men, so those needing cheap labor encourage women to work full time (and import cheap immigrant labor of course). 

And alas, the Democrats who used to recognize this as a capitalist plan no longer see the problem of how women have to work full time and then try to care for her family... and so the propaganda ignores that being single and exploited for cheap labor benefits the elites of globalism...

the myth of the happy single lady is true for those of us who had careers in service and family and friends.

But those rejoicing in their freedom to be single are often just pretending.

 Most never found a decent guy who met their standards and now it's too late. I always wonder why they didn't just consider marrying their best girl friend as an alternative to start a family, or adopting as a single mom but hey, that's just me.

Ironically, some people do recognize this is the dirty little secret of today's women: in their secret hearts many of these women love Hallmark films showing affluent career women in their thirties finding perfect handsome men who will love them.

well, worked for me. But ironically I wasn't looking for a husband (and Lolo was not looking for a wife) but that's another story...

Absurdity of the week

Fox is now a dirty word...

LINK

McDormand won the award Sunday night for best actress in a drama film for her role in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."

She was bleeped as she thanked her studio, Fox Searchlight, and then again when she said the word "shift."

She was speaking about how she keeps her politics private "but it was really great to be in this room tonight and to be part of the tectonic shift in our industry's power structure."

however, ordinary swear words are okay:

However, there was no bleep to be found when she later used a slang term for excrement.

I like MacDormond: She is "normal looking".

Yes, I know Three Billboards is a crime drama, but since I haven't seen it I can't say if it is a cliche or not. But casting a middle aged actress who appears like a middle aged mother is a refreshing idea.

But anyway: I am probably the only one on earth that doesn't like Hallmark films and the Hollywood "romance" chick flicks, where beautiful women seek men, who have to be similarly beautiful and sympathetic to women's feelings and have stayed single somehow long enough to be a love interest in a 30s something feminist.

Reality check: Can you really tell these folks apart?

Guess I've been living in Asia so long that all white folks in films look alike.

Exception is black comedies: Get Out for example.

Well, anyway, McDomand got blasted for wearing a modest dress...

apparently all those virtue signaling ladies there preferred to wear black, but it didn't stop them from having dresses cut open to show their cleavage.

Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Hmm... isn't wearing sexually explicit dresses considered sexual harassment of men?

or do only pious folks and Muslims think this way?

And then they wonder why they feel so sad

Instapundit  links to this article:

HEY, KIDS, WHAT TIME IS IT? It’s time to stop calling Kim Kardashian a “slut.”

yes, nakedness by hollywood type narcissists is "in" and how dare you criticize them (even though their selfie nudies are about getting free publicity, not about feeling good about themselves).

When we pick and choose which women we want to support in their right to their own bodies and which women we don't, we are keeping all women stuck in a self-destructive conversation of cultural shame around sexuality.

honey, it is not about men. It is about jealous women who are too busy to have 8 hours a day to exercize with their personal trainer, and too poor to have all that plastic surgery.

And some of it from those of us who actually have a life is ridicule for you being so childish and silly.

Sexuality is not about you you you. It is a gift of God, so that you can bind in love with your lover and care for each other and your children.

Without the knowledge that sexuality is about family and that making love is actually...making love, i.e. making people feel loving about the one you are with.

Ah, you imply that sex is fun but no with no more moral depth than eating a hamburger (indeed less: hamburgers are high in calories and cause heart attacks, hamburger restaurants underpay their help, and the rain forest is being destroyed to raise cattle in the Amazon).

When you flaunt your sexuality in front of a man, you are being worse than a slut (sluts enjoy men and sex). You are being a tease. You are turning men on and then ridiculing them for their God given sexuality when they are aroused. Then you go around insisting you are a "free woman", while what you are is a sadistic ball breaker.

Modesty has little to do with your clothing: In Africa, one Bantu tribe I worked with traditionally worse a short apron. Modernity brought clothing, but women still thought nothing of openly breast feeding in church.
But they were modest.
In contrast some Saudi girls manage to wear their  state mandated full body costumes in a provocative way to send the message that they are "available".
Costume has to do with local customs. Want to be nude? Go to a nude beach in Europe.

But if I read the article correctly, you are using nakedness to disdain normal men and indeed anyone who might object to your disdain for others who have to see you.

Stop judging women who love their bodies enough to show them off — in public or in private. And stop judging women who don't love their bodies all that much and would prefer to stay covered up. 

ah so that's it. You want to show off.
Others do not count: It's all about Me ME ME

which is why the article below this one discuss sex and success, but not love or family or self sacrifice for the ones you love, or about getting old.

and your shallow life leads to this problem:

15 Things You MUST Know About People Who Have Concealed Depression

Many of you reading this will know how easy it is to feel lost and alone. The truth is, no one has to hide the darkest and most unpleasant parts of themselves. The world we live in encourages this, but it's those darkest parts that also have the most light in them. All that pain produces understandings that create a new level of living.

so you mean maybe even the narcissitic types that read this webpage might have to slide out of their self centeredness to be happy?

No matter how complicated someone is, it's important for them to understand that they're searching for love acceptance. We all are. Open your heart to someone, even if it scares you to death. 

who wudda thot?

those Hallmark Card saying might be true.

Maybe they might even take the next step: not just to "accept" love but to form a mature relationship.

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of course, when one is in the geriatric set, nudity is not really very sexy.

and for a doctor, nudity is not a big deal. Few of our patients are quite so attractive...

Headlines below the fold

Folks in Joplin MO and other tornado or flooded areas are in my prayers.
GatewayPundit has photos.

Sigh...I used to live in Tornado Alley...

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another day, another tropical storm.. due Thursday....should hit north of here, but the worry is flooding.
Luckily we haven't planted yet, but there are worries about Manila flooding again.

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Modern Saudi Arabia, where even a physician isn't allowed to marry her choice of husband

and she's not the only troublemaker:



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Sister Mary Martha has a typicial Catholic reaction to the rapture (or lack thereof):

But that's not the disturbing thing to me about the Rapture. I am disturbed to the point of disgust at the idea that anyone would be so happy to be whizzed up to heaven because they are so righteous while many more millions suffer the Wrath of God.

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on the other hand, in case you didn't get raptured last weekend, never fear: The 12th Imman is scheduled to arrive on June 5th.

more HERE and HERE.

Someone tell Obama...
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however, the really bad news of the day comes from Dave Barry:

The economic forces behind the rising cost of beer

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but the good news of the day: The toilet seat hat brought 131 thousand dollars in a charity auction.

Video of the day

I'm downloading "bible story" stuff for Rubie, who home schools (and Who hates reading the Bible but loves stories).

And I came across this video, about Florence Nightingale, which is not too preachy and does show how brave she was (not only in facing down disease, but in facing down those in charge).




In those days, the only one who would nurse sick people in hospitals were nuns (Anglican or Catholic or Lutheran Deaconesses) or drunks...what FN did was make nursing a profession by stressing professional training.

more here:

Florence to lead a group of 38 nurses there. Of these, 10 were Roman Catholic nuns, 14 were Anglican nuns, and the remaining 14 were "of no particular religion, unless one counts the worship of Bacchus."

They found conditions appalling. Blankets were rotting in warehouses while the men did without, because no one had issued the proper forms for their distribution. The lavatories in the hospitals had no running water, and the latrines were tubs to be emptied by hand. But no one emptied them, since official regulations did not specify which department was responsible for doing so. The result was that the hospital had a foul stench that could be smelled for some distance outside its walls. Far more men were dying in hospitals of infection than of wounds.

Another Sign that the End of the World is Nigh

From the LATimes: French public disapproves of topless beaches:

An Ifop poll last year revealed that 24% of women were perturbed by toplessness on beaches — 37% when you added thong-clad buttocks — and 88% described themselves as pudique (which carries a range of meanings from modest to prudish)....
Coralie Kosiada, 23, has never gone topless on a public beach, and doesn't plan to. "Honestly, I don't really like women who show their breasts," she said, pursing her lips and recoiling slightly. "There are not that many nice-looking breasts, so why display them? And it's a generational question. Mostly 50-year-old women do it. It's kind of passe."

In the UK, even mermaids have to cover up:
(headsup DaveBarry)




as SmilingSally Blog posts:

For All the Girls

When I was in my younger days,
I weighed a few pounds less,
I needn't hold my tummy in
To wear a belted dress.

But now that I am older,
I've set my body free;
There's comfort of elastic
Where once my waist would be.

Inventor of those high-heeled shoes
My feet have not forgiven;
I have to wear a nine now,
But used to wear a seven.

And how about those pantyhose-
They're sized by weight, you see,
So how come when I put them on
The crotch is at my knees?

I need to wear these glasses
As the prints were getting smaller;
And it wasn't very long ago
I know that I was taller.

Though my hair has turned to grey
And my skin no longer fits,
On the inside, I'm the same old me,
Just the outside's changed a bit.

Author Unknown

Headlines below the fold

Get Religion Blog notes the backstory on the two American journalists just rescued by Bill Clinton...
they were covering the escape of refugees for CurrentTV ...

There is a Christian underground railway that helps smuggle and resettle some of these refugees. LINK. I wrote about it HERE.

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I know that only the Rushnuts are supposed to be opposing Obama's health care bill, but the Washington Post mentions that the Catholic bishops have switched their support ...
my essay HERE, but Saint Peggy says it much better HERE.
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Elites consider woman married to non white spouse the posterchild for racism...and those making up stories of fake children and divorces now are being told retract or prove your source.
Best quote of the day:

"Divorce Todd? Have you SEEN Todd? I may be just a renegade Hockey Mom, but I'm not blind!"

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And the political "What if?" question of the day: Will a woman run for and win the presidency in 2012?
Well, she has more B@LLs than the entire whitehouse staff put together...
And if she does, just remember, KimIlSung : Payback's a bitch....

Hog, not Pig...

The Messiah Obama insists: "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.."

Poor boy...he just doesn't know American slang...or American jurisprudence...

an Aug. 2 decision from the Seventh Circuit, holding that, while it is legal to use the term “hog” to refer to motorcycles in their marketing, it is not legal to use it to refer to motorcyclists.

The "lipstick" is not on a pig...or even on a hog...it's on the gal on the hog...

Burqa take Three

One can, after all, condemn imposed dress codes on women without forcing women to be asexual infertile minimen...

So let's hear it for the unisex Gyms.

Headlines below the fold

If the NYTimes says it, it must be true..."No child left behind" is working...

Bush's Africa initiative gets little attention, and Blogfather worries that we will go back to ignoring Africa after the next election...but the NYTimes has an article that doesn't even mention Bush's leadership in this matter, although they do mention Bill Gates.

If Nature reports it, it must be true:
Simple switch turns adult cells into Embryonic stem cells...

Turkey into Iraq? full set of reports here...

Hirsi Ali wows them in Oz...the Mary Wolstoncraft of the Muslims...

Uncovered meat take three

A Picture of uncovered meat here

And no, Luke, you can't open it...warning, not work friendly...

The problem is not if women choose to dress a certain way, but that it is enforced by law.
During one month last year, 63,900 Iranian women in Tehran were issued warnings by police for improper dress, it shows two things: One, that the state is spending a lot of time and money on trival things, and two, that a lot of women don't agree with their stupid rules.

And Iran is women friendly next to Saudi...

Gift Item of the day

"If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street, on the pavement, in a garden, in a park, or in the backyard, without a cover and the cats eat it, then whose fault will it be, the cat’s, or the uncovered meat’s? The uncovered meat is the disaster. If the meat was covered the cats wouldn’t roam around it. If the meat is inside the fridge, they won’t get it."
-Australian Muslim Leader, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilaly's Post-Ramadan Sermon, Sydney Australia 2006. He was referring to women.

Show the Sheik how things really are and Sheik your Booty in this quality Infidel Clothing.

Manufactured in the Great Satan, all proceeds go towards forbidden consumption of alcohol.

The Oriana Fallaci award for promoting Feminism goes to:

Nope, no uncovered meat here, folks, just move along...