1. Ke$ha is the new, true face of feminism. The pop star who sang about brushing her teeth “with a bottle of Jack (Daniels).” Go grrrls.
2. More Reihan Salam on Swedish cohabitation. He draws from Tino Sanandaji’s blog post which contains this passage:
The defining characteristic of Sweden in 1980 was not that it had high marginal taxes; it was that it was a homogenous society with intact families, high trust and stratospheric levels of social capital. Because of the way through which the American left triumphed, rather than realizing your dream of recreating Sweden in 1980 you are going to end up with a more unequal, more socially dysfunctional and less cohesive America than we have today, let alone Sweden in 1980.
So, like Minnesota or something. The link, from Scott Sumner (via Salam) discusses the Driftless Areas – the highland blue sections of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois – which might fit into Steve Sailer’s Big 10 Strategy.
3. My quick take on the blueness of The Driftless Area is that Catholic Germans and Lutheran or secular Scandinavians embrace social progressivism more readily than Anglo Saxons or Scots-Irish. When the GOP embraced more communitarian policies, they had a better chance of capturing these voters. But as the parties have split more and more on cultural and social issues, they’ve discovered that the Democrat Party lines up more with their humanistic social values. They’re also not confronted with immigration or diversity. The Driftless Area is secluded in this regard.
4. The Driftless Area has also been called the “Upper Mississippi River Valley Anomaly“. When reading on this I think of the TV show “Roseanne” which was located in fictional Lanford, Illinois which is supposedly either in west-central or north-central Illinois. Not that she’s necessarily a good prototype of the typical woman from that area, but Roseanne is socially liberal but also family oriented. Dan is working class and holds some conservative values but would also be considered socially liberal in demeanor. The area of the country being discussed is a front for a certain kind of political battle being waged in the country. Those fault lines are interesting to look at.
5. Kevin Drum sees something to the conservative argument for two-parent families and criticizes Krugman’s typical flippant liberal response to all of it.
6. Tying all of these things together, Krugman responds to David Brooks’ column about the new young conservatives by saying that these guys – Tim Carney, the aforementioned Salam, Tyler Cowen, Rod Dreher, etc. – could find a home in the Democrat party since, according to Krugman, Democrats today would have been center-right during the Nixon era.
7. Black women face a wage gap in the porn industry and this is somehow a surprise and an injustice to the people involved in the article.
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I bet the Black women in porn still make more than the white men (I’m sure they make more than the black men too)
I’m sure those people are just as concerned over the fact that men make far less in pornography than women do.
Black women in porn now, are the same as black women in porn in the past, they are a fetish, and therefore don’t command large mainstream porn dollars.
same way you have foot stomping “porn”, plushy porn, fat bitch porn, etc.. those porn people wont get paid as much as a standard white blonde haired blued eyed confed whore, because they are not mainstream, the white girl is.
Everyone wants to fuck a white girl.. even black guys, even black girls.. not everyone wants to even SEE a black girl. and the hottest MAINSTREAM black porn stars look like WHITE women. thin, feminine, pretty, long hair. the main exception i believe was PINKY. she was typical ghetto looking trash, but for whatever reason she was big big news.
MOST porn watchers will watch a white girl have sex with white anything. Many porn watchers will immediately change the porn/scene if a black/idian/fat/etc is in it, because that isnt what they like in real life, so why should they settle, when they are actually paying/pirating it outright
As an aside, since black porn is a fetish, what you need to ask is how many people that enjoy black porn actually PAY for said porn. now of those people that PAY for black porn. how many watch black porn exclusively.. prolly not many.
Its no different for black movies.. think your standard tyler perry fare. LOTS of black people will watch it, but only some white. Now take some movie like the notebook, or whatever.. lots of PEOPLE will watch it. period. ergo, white moves make more $$$, white stars make more $$, cause thats what sells.
The mystery of the blue voting Driftless Area was fleshed out in the comments to blogger Sumner. The Driftless area is, by definition, very hilly and beautiful. My husband and I have a vacation home in Galena. Hilly terrain makes for small scrappy farms. The farmers are conservative, but way outnumbered by liberal imports who create CSA farms, Shakespearean theater, and golf resorts. Add to this liberal retirees from Chicago, John Deere union members, and college students, and you have blue counties.
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Could you expand this into a full post?
Black chicks are just giving it away. If anything, black women in the adult industry are overpaid.
It’s amazing what kind of insane theories people will come up with when the obvious explanation is verboten.
If you’ve ever perused escort ads, you’ll find white women charge the most, Asian women the second most, and black women the least. That’s the market. The sellers do not determine the market; buyers do. Same with porn.
On another note, can you stop posting so many links from female writers? You’re just helping them get book deals and publish titles like “The End of Men.” This is the manosphere and we should support men — bitches can support each other over at Jezebel. Same goes with blogs like Hooking Up Stupid, which no one should be linking to.
Days,
Yes, I can stop posting links to female writers. But I won’t. At my blog I’ll post links…to…whomever…ze fuck….I please.
I hate modern porn. Crap I’d disgusting for the most part. Women doing more (degrading)stuff for less pay.
You know it’s bad when even the male actor looks bored.
*scratches head*
How in the hell can a man look bored during sex?
I saw a clip with some dude named Rocco and let me tell you something, that is one sick MFer. He was having sex with the woman like he was rapping her and because he is so large, he was tearing her you know what up . Poor thing was as dry as a desert.
He was sucking on her toes trying to get her warmed up but it wasn’t working.
As to the point, most White men like to watch White women. No shocker here folks.
If anyone would like to see the clip for themselves it’s Rocco and Cherokee(not blk Cherokee).
Alanb ,
please stop, the hottest blk stars do not look like White women. Misty Stone, Pinky, Skin Diamond,Vanessa Blue, Cherokee do not look like White women .
@Days
There are a ton of great feminist critics who are women. And some if the worst man haters in the world are as male as you and me.
“And some if the worst man haters in the world are as male as you and me.”
Hugo Schwyzer
David Futrelle
Ryu
naw, come to think of it, I don’t think “they” are as male as you and me….
hahaha,
until the wage gap disappears in porn, don’t buy it, download it illegally!!!!
and I always thought those macho types like Advipoops Diablo were still maintaining the transfer of wealth from men to womyn due to paying for sex….
that’s not really MGTOW, now is it?
oh, I couldn’t find the rocco and cherokee clip, does this suffice?
http://poopoogoddess.tumblr.com/post/3985852182/beautiful-english-shit-eaters-no-profit-is
I refuse to clip that link. Will someone just give me a clue.
@stoner
Haha…good point.
Those Mother Jones commenters have to be some of the most drearily predictable people on earth. Even before I clicked on the Kevin Drum article, I knew they were all going to blame the worse outcomes for children of single mothers on “income inequality”. There were a few halfway intelligent comments, but I wasn’t disappointed.
The thing is, none of them seem to realize that, even if they’re right, that still doesn’t answer the question of what we ought to do now. Even if it was true that the problem is just that these horrible old conservatives are deliberately and cruelly allowing poverty to go on, when they could easily stop it, what should we do until they change their minds and fix everything? Is the whole “You go grrl!” attitude towards single mothers really helping anyone, even if conservatives really were at fault for everything on some level?
I know it’s stupid to expect them to act any differently than they do, but it’s always weird to see how the other side thinks.
Chicnoir,
I refuse to clip that link. Will someone just give me a clue.
Given your legendary interactions with GasButtox, I find your statement above to be an attempt to overcompensate in the other direction.
That Atlantic article has it all – the casual obscenity, the linking of high art with trash (Woolf almost certainly would have objected to lyrics like “I don’t care where you live at, just show me where your dick’s at,” and the ever-sensible Betty Friedan might have gently suggested toothpaste for oral hygiene rather than whiskey.,), and the usual hip tropes (Weirdly enough, she might look and act kind of like… um, Ke$ha.).
Great way to cannibalize your brand. Bye bye Atlantic.
“I refuse to clip that link. Will someone just give me a clue.”
You are given clues (and answers) on a regular basis. Whether or not you use them is up to you.
I support Chicnoir’s claim that big name black female porn stars dont look like white women. I’d add Lacey Duvalle is quite popular with white viewers and she’s definitely a black looking woman. She’s probably their fetish ideal for a super curved black girl from the bad part of town down for fucking. Tyra Moore has more of the tanned white girl look.
I’ve been crafting up a post on the racial dynamics of modern porn reflecting each group’s mostly wretched views of the ‘other’. Interracial porn all combos has become much worse than the 70s or 80s interracial porn scenes when most scenes were just “oh, there’s a black/asian girl/guy there”. Now it’s the entire point as porn has become drilled down into smaller niches.
I was at a strip club with a friend 3 weeks ago. When talking to a black stripper, she mentioned how she liked the ‘step up’ she had made in leaving behind the black strip club to start working at the more upscale one. As she stated, better tips and fewer weird requests for the same money. Looks like bad black tipping habits occur even in the strip clubs.
You know who else faces a wage gap in porn industry? Ugly women. If it’s illegal to discriminate against someone based solely on appearance, then this is where argument has to head. Not much chance the race-whores at Colorlines will go there though.
I found the “Driftless Area” links and your commentary interesting. My dad’s German Lutheran family is from right smack in the middle of the region and from what little we’ve talked about politics they strike me as, while not radically leftist, Obama voters across the board.
My mom’s family, on the other hand, is descended from David Hackett Fisher’s group #4 from Albion’s Seed (Scottish-English borderlanders) and is strongly Republican.
I get into trouble when I try to explain my beliefs to my dad’s family because it is hard for them to understand how the social policies they advocate play out in reality in, say, SEC territory compared to the relatively homogenous Iowa-Minnesota-Wisconsin border.
The Dritfless Area is almost coterminous with the service territory of Dairyland Electric Cooperative.
http://www.dairynet.com/our_members/
Kr
You wrote “My quick take on the blueness of The Driftless Area is that Catholic Germans and Lutheran or secular Scandinavians embrace social progressivism more readily than Anglo Saxons or Scots-Irish.” and “Not that she’s necessarily a good prototype of the typical woman from that area, but Roseanne is socially liberal but also family oriented. Dan is working class and holds some conservative values but would also be considered socially liberal in demeanor.”
Those two statements describe germans probably perfect. For Americans those traits and views might be considered mutually exclusive, for germans they are not.
Public health care was introduced during the area of the monarch in the late 19th century:
“Germany has Europe’s oldest universal health care insurance system, with origins dating back to Otto von Bismarck’s Social legislation, which included the Health Insurance Bill of 1883, Accident Insurance Bill of 1884, and Old Age and Disability Insurance Bill of 1889.”
Another example might be one of the states of Germany called Baden-Württemberg. It is one of the most conservative states of Germany. The head of this state is a former member of the Communist League of West Germany. But he is also catholic and an active member of his parish.
Is it a state in a poor economic condition? Not at all: “Although Baden-Württemberg has relatively few natural resources compared to other regions of Germany,[3] the state is among the most prosperous states[4] and is one of the wealthiest regions in Europe with a traditionally low unemployment rate. A number of well-known enterprises are headquartered in the state, for example Daimler AG, Porsche, Robert Bosch GmbH (automobile industry), Carl Zeiss AG (optics), and SAP AG (largest software enterprise in Europe).”
The divorce rate is amongst the lowest in Germany and children are still raised mostly by 2 parents.
Do Catholic or Lutheran Germans embrace social progressivism more readily? No, definitely not. It’s a complete different worldview, hard to explain if you never have encountered this mindset.
@SOBL
Forgot to add Lacey Duvall. She is such a sweet innocent looking girl. She looks like the preacher’s daughter.
I wonder what percentage of children these days can expect to live from 0-18 raised by both biological parents married to each other. What’s that time series look like from 1945 to now? Asymptote from majority to 5%? How does it look broken down by wealth, race, education, class, nation, etc.?
chicnoir – You are in great error. Most religious Christians despise pornography. And have different standards for what they consider rape. What you consider rape, they consider it nothing. In other words, is it “legitimate rape”? No, it isn’t. It’s depraved but it’s fake rape.
@chicnoir – I agree with you as far as Lacey Duvalle’s facial attractiveness. She is a pretty, young woman with nice eyes. Looks normal. It appears she realized her crossover appeal though and got work done to both halves of the hourglass and fulfilled the fetish of the big booty and big titty black girl down for anything. I mention her because when porn sites list their top 50 or 100 most viewed women, she’s usually the one black woman or one of the few listed. If my white friends mention a fave black porn chick, she’s the one, but that is a big ‘if’.
Black women in porn are like kickers and punters in football. They have a job but it’s not really relevant to most peoples enjoyment of the game.
Hammerhead is right – so predictable, and so oblivious. I don’t have the time or the motivation to try to argue against invincible ignorance, so I won’t leave comments at MJ, but haven’t these people noticed that people are *higher income* than back in the 50s and 60s when the divorce and bastardy rates were much lower? Or that among lower-income folks, life was a lot rougher back then – employers were much less likely to put up with the crap that a single parent will bring to a job? Our “strong safety net” wasn’t that strong in the 50s, and was even weaker in the 30s, yet people stayed married and were less criminal than they are today, or in the 70s, when we have a “strong safety net”.