The powers that be wanted to lock up Innocent Smith or have him committed. After all, the protagonist of G.K. Chesterton's "Manalive" — who figured a rooftop the ideal spot for a picnic and bullets life-giving "pills" for pessimists — had been accused of burglary, polygamy, desertion, and attempted murder.
Investigators soon discovered, however, that as his name would suggest, Smith was innocent.
Smith broke into his own house; had a torrid love affair with his own wife; walked "round the world" only to develop a greater appreciation for his home; and provided a nihilistic depressive with a newfound desire to live by way of the cocked-hammer tactic Tyler Durden would later embrace in "Fight Club."
Smith ruffled feathers and risked imprisonment because he "distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments." His peers considered him to be an extremist because he was radically in the right.
Peachy Keenan, contributing editor to the American Mind whose throwbacks to Chesterton prompted mine, hasn't waved a six-shooter threateningly at ghoulish intellectuals or consumed meals on her rooftop — not to my knowledge, anyway. She is, nonetheless, like Smith, another radical from that creedal bunch, who understands that life is better following ten God-given rules than chasing the 10,000 fads presently held dear by today's powers and principalities, especially when those fads lead to misery and ruin.
In her must-read 2023 book, "Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War" — for which a paperback edition is forthcoming — Mrs. Keenan indicts the fads and conventions that have ailed the United States and other Western nations, then offers a prescription for a way to turn things around.
Much ink has been spilled in recent years elaborating on grandiose strategies for fixing the nation. There has been, for instance, talk of regime change in Washington, reining in big business on Wall Street, and a reconquest of the universities.
Mrs. Keenan, a former pro-choice atheist who is now the God-fearing matriarch of a large Catholic family, alternatively makes a strong case for a solution much closer to home.
In "Domestic Extremist," Mrs. Keenan catalogs everything that feminism and the corresponding -isms on the left have taken away from or suppressed in Americans, American women in particular. These include parental authority; child-bearing years and fertility; the maternal instinct; female virtues such as modesty and chastity; mental and spiritual well-being; and the natural complementarity between the sexes.
While the clock has sadly run out for multitudes of victims and useful idiots, Keenan stresses that not all alive today are condemned to a similar fate — especially not if they act now.
Her thesis, in a word, comes down to "domesticity"; as in, all Americans should fully embrace it and never let go.
There are strong indicators that domesticity is the way back to sanity and victory, not only because it served our forebears well enough for eons, but because of what evils can be directly linked to its suppression.
Mrs. Keenan notes with precision and biting humor precisely how feminism transformed countless female adherents into the Borg: dispirited, sterile, and interchangeable units of labor encouraged to suppress instinct, abort children, and ape supposedly masculine traits in pursuit of meaningless status and the benefit of their antihuman overseers; the noncommittal men happy to swipe right on the next conquest; employers spared from having an employee depart for maternity leave; and a fertility industry all too keen to bankrupt careerists who delayed child-rearing to live the "Sex and the City" lifestyle.
The victims at the outset appear predominantly to be those women who have rejected God and nature, but it's clear that everyone is ultimately affected, including the innumerable persons who will never be conceived and all those persons conceived who have been destroyed in Planned Parenthood's abattoirs.
"It's time to try something new, folks. And by new, I mean old," writes Keenan. "To fight back, some of us are going to have to reorient ourselves. Shift our mindsets. We're going to have to become ever so slightly more domestic."
For women specifically, this shift entails remaining "authentically female, as in, the timeless ways of being female: as a daughter, mother, and a wife. … It also means turning away from the diseased offerings of the elites, the media, Hollywood, your child's school, and Big Tech, and towards a more human lifestyle."
Mrs. Keenan reckons this natural, "organic" remedy will generate a social tsunami great enough to override the last ruinous waves of feminism, save our civilization from collapse, and thwart what Pope John Paul II elsewhere deemed the "culture of death."
In a brief exchange about "Domestic Extremist," Keenan told Blaze News, "The left had 100 years to accomplish their goals, and we just started fighting back recently."
While the title of the book might prompt some to imagine the pseudonymous mother lowering the armored plating onto her Killdozer, muttering something about un-governability, then taking tread to the gathering forces of darkness, Keenan, like Smith, has a "mostly peaceful" solution in mind.
Mrs. Kennan recommends having at least three kids, if physically able; marrying young, staying married, and remaining faithful; thwarting efforts by private and public forces to usurp your parental authority; and, should circumstances allow it, "Stay home with your babies as long as you can."
Winning is largely dependent upon more domestic extremists steeling that institution upon which all civilizations depend and every tyrant reviles — what Chesterton called the "triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child."
While ostensibly a defensive move in the short run, Mrs. Keenan makes expressly clear that the nuclear family is "radioactive to the Regime." A good offense often requires a great defense.
Once a domestic extremist has established her family such that it might register on the state's Geiger counters, Keenan told Blaze News that the best way to further harden your perimeter is "to flee government schools and do whatever it takes to ensure your kids keep their genders and minds intact from the brainwashing. And go to mass!"
"We must do our best to become more domestic than they could ever imagine. We must cling bitterly to our families, our men, our homes, our children, and our own identities," Keenan underscores in the book. "We will refuse to believe the Big Lies of feminism. We reclaim our children, and what we teach them. We will assert ownership and agency over our lives."
As any parent knows, battles can be won on the daily, but a victory in the broader war will require a multigenerational effort. Like Moses, most alive today will not enter the promised land. That doesn't mean there aren't some ways to expedite the process.
For those wishing to speed up the transition to extreme domesticity, Mrs. Keenan gives a nifty "shortcut": traditional religion.
"When you become a 'person of faith,' like I did years ago, you get to jump ahead of all the laborious steps involved in becoming extremely domestic," wrote Keenan.
In addition to arguing the "Ten Commandments pretty much sum up the rules for a happy life," Mrs. Keenan suggests religious orthodoxy helps inoculate children against "the most depraved ideas of mainstream culture."
Just as Mrs. Keenan manages to infiltrate heavy subject matter with humor, the book is also saturated with her own faith and hope. She appears genuinely convinced that breaking with disordered convention, keeping the commandments, and becoming a domestic extremist is a winning formula and that victory is all but guaranteed.
When pressed about her certainty, Mrs. Keenan told Blaze News, "Humans don't want to live in abject misery, although our leaders want us to. I have faith that we will, in the end, win bigly, but it may get much worse before we do. And if we don't, you still win if you get to heaven."
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During an event Friday concerning "women's advancement," Australia's first female prime minister was confronted with what proved to be a difficult question, namely, "What is a woman?"
Julia Gillard's tortured four-minute response, wherein she managed to avoid ever mentioning those immutable characteristics that distinguished her from all her predecessors, has prompted ridicule and contempt internationally.
Gillard, a Welsh-born lawyer, became Australian prime minister in June 2010. Facing an abysmal approval rating, her left-leaning Labor Party ousted her three years later, but not before she could issue her famous lecture about misogyny to her soon-to-be successor across the aisle, Tony Abbott.
The former prime minister joined Frances Adamson, the governor of South Australia, at Government House in Adelaide last week to discuss "the issues, challenges and opportunities facing Australian women."
At one point during the event, women's rights activist and comedian Biddy O'Loughlin asked a set of penetrating questions germane to the topic at hand: "What is a woman, and do you agree with Queensland's Attorney-General Minister for Women Shannon Fentiman that trans women are women and with UK's leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer that some women can have a penis?"
Gillard said she would be happy to answer, but prefaced her response by expressing concern that "this has turned into a kind of 'gotcha' parlor game."
Rather than partake in such a "game," Gillard suggested that it would be prudent instead to "come at this once again from first principles."
On the basis of first principles, Gillard concluded, "There are a number of people who genuinely believe that they are trapped in the wrong body, and they want to be recognized as the gender their mind and soul have always told them that they are — and that doesn't go one way. It goes both ways. You know, people who have transitioned from being men to being women and women who have transitioned to being men."
She added, "I think we've just got to say, like we'd want to show everybody else in the community love, inclusion, and respect, we should do that for each of those individuals."
Concerning what constitutes a "woman" in 2023, Gillard appeared willing to defer to transvestites, saying, "Transsexual women believe that part of that inclusion is referring to them the way they want to be referred to, using the pronouns that they want to have used about them. I would seek to do that in that circumstance."
Australia's first woman prime minister then intimated the controversy over whom is meant by "woman" is not "inherent in the discussion."
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Genevieve Gluck, the co-founder of the feminist publication Reduxx, tweeted in response to the video of Gillard's response, "Even politicians are afraid of upsetting the very group of men that women are now expected to invite into our intimate spaces. Women are not a thought experiment - we can't defend what we can't define."
Australian politician Moira Deeming, an independent member of the Victorian Legislative Council, noted, "Tragically, it was our first female Prime Minister that presided over the erasure of sex based rights in Australia. Now she frames reasonable questions & complaints about the consequences, as petty bigotry."
The Spectator Australia reported that toward the end of Gillard's time at the helm of the nation, she oversaw the enactment of an amendment to the country's Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 which eliminated the definition of "woman," previously recognized to mean "a member of the female sex irrespective of age." The so-called Gillard amendments also erased the definition of "man" from the SDA.
Katherine Deves, writing for the Spectator, noted, "The Gillard amendments imposed the biggest game of wilful pretend imaginable on women and girls, now forced to suspend their reality and believe that a ‘penis-owner’ is a woman, because he says so."
Sky News host Rita Panahi blasted Gillard over her latest response, saying, "We've seen that question stump many gutless bureaucrats and politicians, but I never thought that Australia's first female prime minister, the first woman in the lodge as leader of this great nation, would be incapable of answering 'what is a woman?' but here we are."
"Around four minutes of idiotic waffle that shows where Australia’s ... first female prime minister stands on this most crucial issue," continued Panahi. "She stands firmly with the trans activists that have hijacked the left and modern feminism."
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The American Medical Association has floated the suggestion that there's no moral reason why taxpayers should not subsidize the provision of wombs from dead or living women to transvestites so that they can carry babies.
A peer-reviewed paper published in the AMA Journal of Ethics in June concluded that even "if there are limits on subsidies, the case could be made that no moral obstacle stands in the way of justifying subsidies for UTx [uterus transplantation] for some transwomen and transmen, just as there seems to be no fully persuasive argument against gestating a child via UTx."
Timothy F. Murphy, a professor of philosophy in the biomedical sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and Kelsey Mumford, a medical student at Dell Medical School with a gender studies certificate, neither one a medical doctor, claimed that in light of the success of UTx in real women, men "who want to gestate their own children" and men who "want uterus transplants to consolidate their identities but not to gestate children" might take interest in the procedure.
After all, their inability to ever normally bear children might leave them experiencing "psychological dissonance in a way that undermines their health and well-being," according to the academics. "The lack of a uterus also closes off the prospect of gestating a child in a way that is available to women as a class. It follows that lack of a uterus is an obstacle to full participation in the social goods attached to women's identity."
The paper's authors insinuated, on the basis of a 2021 bioethics paper, that transvestites may no longer need to suffer disappointment on account of reality, claiming there are "no absolute barriers in anatomy, hormones, and obstetric considerations that would rule out the possibility of successful UTx" in men.
After arguing that it may not only be morally justifiable but scientifically possible for men suffering gender dysphoria to carry children in wombs lifted from real women, Murphy and Mumford broached the matter of cost.
Since the estimated costs for the procedure run between $100,000 and $300,000, at least for females — there's presently no indication how much it would cost for a man, since it's never been done before — Murphy and Mumford indicated that "all parties interested in UTx will look to both private insurance and government providers for help covering costs."
While acknowledging that most states and the federal government do not presently subsidize fertility treatment for women and that there will inevitably be various criteria for eligibility, the paper's authors concluded that there are no moral obstacles in the way of granting men uteri or enabling them to carry children in their naturally barren bodies.
This paper appeared in an issue entitled "Patient-Centered Transgender Surgical Care."
Mumford introduced the issue with an editorial, wherein she noted that "we have now reached a tipping point" in the field of gender dysphoria-affirming genital mutilation and hormone treatments, where the "focus has largely shifted from fighting for its acceptance as a treatment modality and increasing patients' access to it toward ethical stewardship of this now-validated and accessible set of procedures."
"Rather than funding objective medical studies on transgender medicine, the AMA has chosen activist positions on this delicate topic," Dr. Martin Makary, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told the Washington Examiner.
"Why don’t they fund a study on the 10-year regret rate of children who undergo transitioning surgery? What is the suicide rate among those who undergo aggressive hormone or surgical treatment versus long-term talk therapy?" asked Makary.
"Medicine has many crisis issues today — overtreatment, the medical-industrial complex, stagnant cancer research, and skyrocketing health care costs," continued Makary. "It’s odd that the AMA is skipping over these giant issues to focus on uterus transplants for transgender people."
The Daily Mail reported that uterus transplants have only been executed successfully around 100 times worldwide for women. It is a multilayered process that takes over 18 months on average.
Makary told "Fox & Friends" that it's medically possible to do, but the "question is, should it be done?"
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An Ohio man was charged earlier this year for exposing himself to multiple women, in one instance with little girls present.
While the presiding judge in 31-year-old Darren Glines' case determined there was "no question that Glines was in the women's locker room," he ultimately let the transvestite off the hook because of the YMCA's gender identification policy and the transvestite's giant gut.
TheBlaze reported in February that Glines was charged in Xenia Municipal Court with three counts of public indecency for exposing himself in September, November, and on a third occasion with kids present — all fourth-degree misdemeanor charges.
A Greene County mother told WLWT that she was "upset" and "shaken," after Glines, of Fairborn, allegedly exposed his penis to her and her 13-year-old and 16-year-old daughters in one of the reported instances.
Despite having an intact penis, Glines allegedly told the concerned mother that he was in fact a woman.
The mother reportedly found no help from the director of the YMCA, who indicated that Glines and men like him couldn't be stopped from entering women's spaces.
The YMCA of Greater Dayton refused to bar the male patron from the once female-only space.
"Under no circumstance will we investigate an individual’s birth identity and then assign individuals to locker rooms. That would be counter to the law, counter to respect for all people and it is not who or what we are as an organization," the organization said in a statement.
The organization told WLWT that "Greater Dayton YMCA adheres to Ohio and Federal laws and antidiscrimination laws which allow all members access to its facilities and programs, regardless of religion, national origin, race, color, sex, age, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation."
Hopes that Glines might be held to account were dashed on April 28 when Judge David McNamee cleared Glines in Xenia Municipal Court, noting that the YMCA permitted him to be in the women's locker room and his gut likely covered his penis, reported WHIO-TV.
"There is no question that [Glines] was in the women’s locker room. However, [Glines] was not charged with trespass, nor was [Glines] charged with being in an area of the YMCA where [Glines] was not supposed to be," McNamee wrote, citing permission provided to Glines by Fairborn YMCA executive director Jacqueline Brockman.
Glines' activist attorneys Lauren and Keara Dever argued that in addition to having the permission to parade around naked in the women's locker room, it is "fair to say that the whole genital area was covered by body fat."
McNamee appeared to agree, writing, "Glines' genitalia was not visible as a result of other portions of her body covering same."
Reduxx reported that Glines weighs over 350lbs.
RedState indicated that two precedents are set in this case: "First, if a man is so fat that their genitals can’t be clearly seen, then it’s apparently fine for them to get naked in front of little girls at a YMCA. ... Further, it is now apparently acceptable for a man to get naked in front of little girls as long as the degenerates at the front desk of an establishment give him permission to enter the woman’s locker room."
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The Toronto Raptors have taken steps this week to atone for the grievous error of suggesting that only women can have babies.
The NBA franchise posted a video Wednesday to celebrate "Women's History Month" featuring players Malachi Flynn, 24, Precious Achiuwa, 23, and Scottie Barnes, 21.
The now-deleted 13-second clip begins with the prompt, "Beyonce said girls run the world. Why do you think that's true?"
Flynn responded, "Girls run the world because ... they are the only ones who can procreate."
Achiuwa noted that women "birth everybody."
Barnes stated that "all women are great because they are queens."
\u201csaved this before the raptors inevitably deleted \n\na new candidate for the who-the-hell-approved-this-sports-team-account-tweet hall of fame\u201d— Molly Morrison (@Molly Morrison) 1677711836
The Raptors, which are partnered with the You Can Play Project, an LGBT activist group pushing its agenda in sports, issued an apology, stating, "We’re an organization that prides itself on doing the right thing when it comes to inclusion and representation, and we made a mistake yesterday."
The organization added, "Our sincerest apologies to our players, our staff and our fans – we’ll work to do better today and every day after."
It appears the apology was prompted in part by a number of critiques from relative unknowns on Twitter.
One anti-police user with pronouns in his bio wrote, "If your entire Women Empowerment video has 8 seconds of footage, and the people involved can only come up with 'women can give birth' then maybe delete the footage and try something else."
Another tweeted, "The @Raptors should spend the next month providing education to their players on ways women are awesome beyond our biology. Not all women can, or want to, give birth."
Just as they were denounced for stating biological facts, the Raptors were subsequently ridiculed for apologizing.
Former NBA player Andrew Bogut tweeted, "Soft as butter @Raptors apologising because one of their players said only women can procreate, during Women History Month! I'll say it for you. Only WOMEN can have babies."
Per Sources, an online sports community, tweeted, "Toronto Raptors apologizing for this women's history month video is embarrassing. Apparently saying only women can be mothers is offensive in some countries..."
The Hodgetwins tweeted, "Men can’t naturally grow a damn human being inside of them, it’s literally impossible. Tell whoever is 'offended' by this to f*** off."
\u201c@TheNBACentral Men can\u2019t naturally grow a damn human being inside of them, it\u2019s literally impossible. \n\nTell whoever is \u201coffended\u201d by this to fuck off\u201d— NBACentral (@NBACentral) 1677800158
@AGORACOM wrote, "What happened to NBA players being able to express themselves? Or is this Woke poker where some hands are more valuable than others? Transgender men beats Black NBA players praising their moms and wives."
YouTuber Toby Turner noted, "nothin wrong w/ giving props for the coolest thing a human can do."
The Toronto Sun reported that the Raptors are hosting a "Women's Empowerment Night" on March 14, in an effort to "elevate women" and empower them in sport "on and off the court."
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