The Pseudo-Saviors of the West: The Gifts that Keep Giving

I wrote here about Ilana Mercer's botox, and a not-so-subtle cleavage exposure.

Well, now she has competition. Here is Faith Goldy, a retweeter of Mercer's tweets. Goldy places a cross in front of her own whoppers (visible at her youtube, around the 4:55 point). And Malkin's Facebook page shows her bare naked thighs.

We are on a roll here. Con-Women LIKE to be looked at. And Social Media deviously obliges.

Mallard Ducks: Female Subtelty

[Photos By: KPA]

The most conspicuous of the ducks is the male mallard duck. Its iridescent head, glowing with gold tints, is truly beautiful. Its body, a fluffy down, inviting touch, is equally attractive.

But it is the subtly of the female that wins my points.

Here are a mallard duck couple. They didn't seem to mind my intrusion, as long as I didn't get more than two feet to close. Then they just simply quacked. And I obliged.

I had my weapon, my camera with its super-zoom lens, which can take tele-photo close-ups. And a close-up of the female's feathers was truly surprising.

There is a stroke of a blue-purple, in just one area, near the bottom of the abdomen, which brandishes and identifies this feminine counterpart. Nothing flashy, but present, all the same.

If only human females would learn this art of subtlety, and let that indomitable male shine, or let him let her shine.

But, I prefer the art of the mallard. A stroke of purple is all it takes.

The Flawless First Lady

The Conservative Treehouse updates us on the activities of POTUS, but rarely on FLOTUS, so here is his post today on Mrs. Trump herself, Melania, on a "First Lady's" mission to make America Great Again.

When I read TCT's blog post title for today: Melania Trump Liberty University Convocation and Town Hall Discussion on Opioid Crisis… I thought we would see a subdued Melania with less emphasis on her femaleness and more on her femininity coming across perhaps as a good aunt giving advice on her life experiences and how to try to stay on the right track.

And then I saw these photos:







Hillary wore her pantsuits, I'm sure, to cover her thick legs (calves especially). But what about wearing dresses and skirts which go down further than the knees? Not all the way down to the ankles like a 19th historical revival (which would not work anyway without the social and cultural revival of feminine modesty that the era practiced, and which would take a whole revolution to promote in our immodest times), but elegant dresses and skirts which go halfway down those "heavy" calves, which was Hillary's problem but certainly not Melania's? Many stores do carry such clothes and many can be elegant with the right combination of jacket and shoes.

I think Melania wears these thigh-hugging pants to show off her long legs, and to showcase her slim behind.

What does she think people look at when she crosses her legs as she sits down for the interview and exposes more thigh and upper-leg body?

Odd.

Serious conversation is lost and everything is focused on her, and specifically her body.

Maybe she just wants to look sexy?

Well yes, of course.

I googled "Melania Trump Liberty University Convocation and Town Hall Discussion on Opioid Crisis…" without quotations, and sure enough here is The Daily Caller who posts this more close-up photo of her (below) with her makeup masked face which he aptly titles: Melania Wows in Charcoal Grey Pant Suit During Trip to Liberty University, and gives us a rundown of Flotus' wardrobe:

Melania Trump absolutely shined Wednesday when she showed up wearing a striking charcoal grey pant suit during her trip to Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The first lady looked flawless as ever during a town hall meeting about the country’s opioid epidemic, as she took the stage in the long sleeve jacket and pants that she paired with a scoop neck black top. (RELATED: Ivanka Turns Heads In Gorgeous Yellow Plaid Skirt Suit)

She completed the fantastic look with loose hair and black and grey snakeskin high-heels.

How about this for Melania? A dress in brighter colors with print that is not too overpowering. Something elegant, serious and feminine.

I found it by googling "A mid-calf dress with long sleeves" (no quotes).

Maybe those desperate young men might just listen to her then.

The Truth Shall Be Revealed (Hopefully)

Michelle Obama has written her memoir. I won't buy it, but I will certainly read/watch the commentary around it. And there is plenty of that!

What I could glean from an interview I watched is that MO had a miscarriage then the two Obama girls were obtained through IVF

Here's what I wrote to a correspondent:

Have you heard about Michelle Obama's memoir that just came out? The fascinating thing is that their (hers and Barack's) two daughters were born via IVF. Remember Larry's theory that Michelle was some kind of transvestite/transgender male with a sex change to be female? And the running story that Obama is gay?

Michelle, in a recent interview I watched (I saw her memoir in the bookstore), talks about her "miscarriage" before having the two daughters. She can say whatever she wants and there are enough (paid and implicated) people who will corroborate with this story. But the IVF part is fascinating. You can't hide that, especially with TWO results.

And here's a funny (and at times tongue in cheek) post on MO at Larry Auster's View from the Right (I've posted the article and the dialogue below).

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Looking at that photo of Michelle (from the website StyleList), I’m reminded of a line from Bernard Shaw’s one-act play about Shakespeare, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, in which Shakespeare says, “There are two sorts of women—those with excellent voices, sweet and low, and cackling hens that cannot make me dream.”
Well, Michelle in that photo not only cannot make me dream, she’s like a figure in a nightmare—or a horror movie, Michelle, Part VI.

View From the Right - end of initial entry -

Comments:

Roger G. writes:

What do you have against vicious, hulking, Marxist monsters?

LA replies:

They scare me, man.

Roger replies:

You’re just jealous of her delts.

Daniel H. writes:

I don’t find Michelle Obama unattractive at all. For her age, she looks pretty good. Correct, she is a bit muscular about the shoulders and neck, but she has a pleasant mien and is not grossly overweight. And she dresses well. More importantly, by all appearances she is a dutiful, faithful wife and mother. If she were not a leftist with racial grievances she would make a fine first lady.

LA replies:

A bit muscular around the shoulders and neck? She has the musculature of a male body builder.
And what about that powerful right hip and thigh, lurching forward menacingly in that tight skirt? She looks like Yeats’s rough beast, moving its slow thighs, slouching toward Bethlehem, while all about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

She has this large, disconcertingly masculine body, but instead of covering it up with feminine clothes, she wears tight outfits that bring out her oversized musculature. It’s unnatural and freaky. She is to womanhood what her husband’s presidency is to America.

Patrick H. writes:

I agree with Daniel H. that Michelle O. is not unattractive or ugly in any obvious sense. But she is a great big hulking muscular being, really quite imposing in some ways, and in no way feminine. What troubles me about Michelle O. is that she is so graceless and clumsy-looking, with a kind of heavy, intrusive, arm-swinging massiveness about her. Since I am a fascistic global-warming-denying racist sexist homophobic conservative, I can say that black women, while usually far too large for my tastes, can sometimes exhibit a kind of feline lightness in their movements, a graceful sensuous presence in the way they hold themselves. But Michelle O is utterly lacking in lightness, grace or poise and seems to me curiously sexless and physically unappealing. She deserves to be called a “handsome woman,” not a beautiful one.

And surly looking or what? Man … she seems ready to tackle you, or maybe knee you in the groin. One expects the next words out of her mouth to be, “Hey, whachoo lookinat?”

In an earlier communication with you, I called her the First Linebacker, and shared an anticipatory wince with you at the prospect of four years of having her hyped as a new ideal of beauty, Michelle O. to replace our old ideal First Lady Jackie (later O.). I can say that Michelle seems to have been downgraded in the glamour sweepstakes, perhaps because of the emergence of Carla Bruni, whom Michelle seems to detest and fear and envy. In any case, no one seems any more to be hammering at us that we have to think that Michelle is beautiful and desirable and feminine or else be considered hopelessly racist. Perhaps there’s hope for us yet. Perhaps the reign of plasticized fake-breasted porno-chicks on the one hand and over-exercised muscular Amazonian behemoths on the other is finally, blessedly coming to an end.

Maybe we’ll be able to say again, “Cherchez la femme!” without laughing. I have a dream!

LA replies:

For this great comment, you get a standing “O.” (pun intended).

Michael Mc writes:

I must say that I find your denunciation of Michelle Obama’s appearance spectacularly ugly and untraditional.

Would this have appeared in an Edwardian paper? In an American paper from 1950?

LA replies:

I’m doing what I always do, which is try to find words to convey the truth of things as I see them, within the bounds of decency. Do you seriously expect me in the year 2010, responding to the spectacle of weird hostile aliens in the White House and the government, to write about it as would an Edwardian in 1910 or an American newspaper in 1950? I’m not in general an admirer of the journalism of invective, but anything I write along those lines at this site is extremely mild compared to styles of invective that have been common in the West for centuries.

LA continues:

Also, there is a place in traditionalism for the vigorous and the rude, as long as it’s kept in its place. How did comedy begin in ancient Athens, but as pretty raw stuff? And that’s part of our tradition too. (Not that VFR does anything raw—this is not a Game site, after all.) But there is a place for the expression of such emotions as disgust and ridicule, especially when directed at “leaders” who are involved in a hostile takeover of this country. The Psalms have every kind of emotion including hatred and hoping for the ruin of enemies. Those are not the most elevated emotions, but they are part of what we are, and there is a place for them to be expressed, within bounds.

Michael Mc replies:

I did think for a minute, before writing what I did, that the western tradition of political invective is far more developed than the current cries for “bipartisanship” let on—but I stuck with my criticism because of the following suspicion:

As the culture continues to coarsen and decline, as the murky water sinks, let us say, dragging the fronds and foam down with it, one island that will begin appear more prominent will be that of the traditionalists, and one of our most conspicuous qualities will be a comparative lack of sexual coarseness, or rather, of coarseness between the sexes.

While your comments are nothing compared to current standards, neither do they make this difference as conspicuous as I might prefer.

LA replies:

Interesting point, but, just to make sure we’re on the same page, how have I expressed sexual coarseness in the Michelle discussion?

Michael Mc replies:

You wrote:

Also, there is a place in traditionalism for the vigorous and the rude, as long as it’s kept in its place. How did comedy begin in ancient Athens, but as pretty raw stuff? And that’s part of our tradition too.

Point taken—one mustn’t mistake traditionalism for mere fussiness. I still, however, think that commenting on this woman’s appearance in this manner doesn’t make much of a point, at least when considered next to the possible charges it opens us up to.

LA replies:

This is an issue that has come up from time to time. While some people disagree with me on this, I and others think that commenting on the physical appearance of public figures is legitimate. A society expresses itself through the personae, the manners, the dress, of its members, particularly its leading public figures who are the models that others follow. A conservatism that declines to comment on that dimension of human society is not looking at the whole. A major problem with American conservatism is its abstractness, treating society as though it were a collection of principles. But a society is a living, organic thing, and right now the living organic thing that is our society is very sick and distorted, but conservatives are largely blind to this cultural and life-style dimension of liberal society because they themselves are a part of it.

Gary Moe writes:

Michelle Obama as one of the “Three First Ladies of the West?” More like the third Williams sister (as in Venus and Serena), if you ask me.

Michael Mc replies:

You wrote:

“how have I expressed sexual coarseness in the Michelle discussion?”

The idea that Michelle is too masculine or unattractive to be considered a “First Lady” in the sense of Carla or Samantha, and must rather be treated as an abberant form relating to cultural collapse (as the Yeats quote implies) is, to my eyes, an over-the-bounds speculation into the sexual and married life of the current President.

LA replies:

I did not intend any speculation into the private married life of the president and his wife. That wasn’t part of my thought. I was commenting on the public persona and the physicality of Michelle O., and particularly on its impact on me, not on the impact of her private persona and physicality on her husband, which is something I would rather not think about.

Michael Mc replies:

Fair enough. This is certainly one of the more interesting boundaries and discussions that a traditional stance will introduce and engender.

Roger G. writes:

My apology to Michael Mc - I’m sorry that Michelle Obama is a vicious, hulking, Marxist monster.

Roger G. writes:

And if I’m going to keep reading your site, you’ll have to censor all hints of the Obamas’ sexual activity. The flapping ears, the trapezius rhythmically flexing and unflexing - it’s like contemplating Charles Johnson’s modern art.

LA replies:

Roger is referring to this entry: The profound thought process of Charles Johnson; and a discussion of H.R. Giger

Richard O. writes:

I just don’t see what someone’s appearance has to do with anything. To me, Michele looks quite elegant and has nice lines and a nice smile. Chacun a son gout, and all that.
I have my doubts about where her and her husband’s hearts lie and long for the day for them to be gone but I think a simple line to draw is between public conduct and speech one side and appearance and private life on the other.

I check your site five times a day to see what new insights you come up with. I just don’t think I learn anything useful from a discussion about appearance.

LA replies:

For the most part, we’re not talking here simply about a person’s physical features and body type, but the person, how that person is presenting herself to the world. Michelle doesn’t just happen to be disconcertingly large and muscular, she dresses and moves in a way that pushes those qualities forward. And because she is the most visible woman in America and setting trends and so on, that is a legitimate topic.

But even if we were talking only about physical appearance, people’s physical appearance is part of what they are, and is naturally of interest when we’re talking of public people who are being put before us every day.

At the same time, you are right. It’s subjective. Your reaction to Michelle—she’s elegant—will be different from my reaction—she’s threatening-looking—and therefore the meaning I find in that photo will not be the meaning that you find, and no argument can bridge that gap. So I acknowledge that this is a lower-level discussion than a purely intellectual discussion. However, those who have more or less the same subjective reaction to Michelle that I have will find my comments meaningful.

Richard O. replies:

Fair enough. She seems to have an odd walk, I admit. Merely to look at either of those freaks is to be reminded of the morons who voted them there.

Bill Cosby and Our Legacy

So, Andrea Constand didn't like the fact that Bill Cosby got her to fornicate with him, and she is furious.

You see she's a lesbian!!!!

So how do we actually know her state of inebriation as she went into the room of debauchery? She could have been drunk, as could have been Cosby.

Cosby denies and she accuses.

I believe Cosby. I would have left him to resume his destroyed life. And who knows what comebacks people make! Especially comedians.

So the "jury" went by the #MeToo epidemic that is sweeping through our epoch and ruled in favor of the butch woman. Where was her butchness then!!!!

Oh right, she was overwhelmed by the shortish, stoutish comedian who never played any kind of macho superhero role in his life. The most he did as a crime-scene investigator was as Scotty in Spy where he was more an undercover agent than a karate-chopping James Bond. And she couldn't even muster enough chops to send him out of that bedroom, and by the way, to which she went willingly. So much for butch pederastes!

Shame on everyone who let this unfold.

The World in Pants

Image and tweet via James Perloff's twitter page

My elementary and secondary boarding school education in England required that we wear school uniforms. The girls' uniforms were skirts. ALL the time. We never complained. Much later in my last year in the secondary school (I left at 17, and a year before "graduation" to go to college in the US), we were allowed pants during a select period in the coldest days in the Winter Term - not the spring or fall.

The only other variation to the uniform was summer dresses during the hot summer days in the late Spring Term. Rather than the grey or navy blue of the school uniform, we were allowed to wear a light blue, and dresses of our choice (with approval by the housemistress of course). I had a dress from the Dutch department store C&A, which I wore for many years after.

The point of the uniforms wasn't really uniformity. It was more about concentrating on academics rather than fashion and self-pruning, which girls at that age (12 -18) are prone to do.

(For boys - a topic for a later post - it was about solidarity. School uniforms, with their schools' particular colors and insignia, promote loyalty and cohesiveness.)

But for girls, uniforms were also about modesty.

Skirts teach young (and teenage) girls not to engage in masculine activity, where they are very likely to behave in immodest behavior. Skirts and dresses teach girls to be girls, and later on to be women.

When girls want to be boys, boys will treat them (or will be coerced to treat them) like boys. And boys will stifle (or learn to stifle) their natural desire to help and assist girls, and later, women.

And boys will double guess what it means to behave like a boy, and later to behave like a man. Their importance social education has been curtailed, and worse, deemed BAD!

No opening doors, no "women and children first," no going to war for wives and family.

You're on your own ladies, with your freshly bought pant suits.

Kate Spade's Empty Luxury

Square One Mall's Luxury Wing Kate Spade Store

The Sicily Dress from Kate Spade's website, which resembles the grey dress above, is for $238 at Kate Spade Online.



I was going to do a post on Kate Spade. She has a brand new big store in the Square One Mall Luxury Wing. I would go in once in while, but found her goods (dresses, handbags, scarves) to be so expensive that I would leave disappointed. And despite the light (often pastel) colors, I didn't find her designs to be exceptional and worthy of their price tag.

She was all over the place. The Chapters/Indigo bookstore has her notecards and other paper goods, and The Bay department store has her household goods where dishes and side plates were displayed.

And the last time I went to her store in Square One (about five days ago), I saw a couple of perfumes sitting on the counter. Perfume too! I looked for a cardboard stick to test spray the perfumes but couldn't find any.

Both sales women were busy, one was with a customer (who just didn't seem to be interested in buying, but rather was asking a lot of questions) and another was on the phone. I stood and waited for a while, then looked around the store to pass time. I'm glad I did that because it clarified my earlier impressions that despite the prettiness, there was nothing really special there (and for that price!).

Still no service!

"Excuse me, can I just as a quick question?" I interrupted the woman with the customer. "I'll be with you in a minute" she smiled back.

The woman on the phone got off the phone and went to the back of the store. When she came back, I asked again: "Can I just ask a quick question?"

"Just a minute," she walked past me.

Again her customer took a lot repetition for her to finish the call.

"Do you have any kind of cardboard paper to test the perfume?"

"Oh yes. Here is one."

I sprayed the perfume and smelt it. It was sweetish, maybe flowery.

"Do you have any information on the perfume? What its notes are?"

"No."

"Usually perfume houses send stores all the details of their perfumes. It could be in your database."

"Yes," she said after looking up the information and read out to me what she saw on the screen.

"Thanks! Great. I guess you don't have a printer, but sorry to be a bother. Can you write it down for me?"

It's all in the "attitude" right? The woman by now was so tired of my 5-minute presence in the empty store that she quickly scribbled something on some paper (a print from the cash). Of course, I had to as her "Is this word an 'e ,' an 'r,'?"

By then, I got impatient.

Then I realized: "This is part of that blitz. That wonderful crew at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, which has deemed me a racist fascist, has sent emails out to the Square One management. I am to be treated 'carefully'."

Wow!

The perfume "connoisseur" was a Filipino woman. Of course I must be shunned avoided and NOT served.

Of course I could be wrong. But in any case if the Kate Spade management didn't receive any "blitz," then her treatment of me is even worse. She would be mistreating me based solely on my appearance and her prejudice. Look who is racist now!

I've always maintained that the various non-white contingencies of Mississauga (Indians/Hindu, Chinese/?, Filipinos/Catholics, Arabs/Muslims, Blacks/Christians) DON'T LIKE EACH OTHER! THEY DON'T WANT TO BE GROUPED TOGETHER IN SOME MULTI-CULTI HAPPY FAMILY!!

MULTICULTURALISM IS ONE BIG FARCE!!

I think that was how this woman was reacting.

I took an extra spray of the perfume. Wrote down its name and left the store.

Who exactly in the Square One Mall is buying Kate Spade's goods anyway?

I wonder when this mall will start to resemble an abandoned site?

The Well Dressed Lady: Part II

I returned to the store yesterday afternoon to pick up Moonlight in Paris along with some other book that would make my total purchase $5 (or more...).

I looked and looked. I searched via the store's computer catalogue. I went into sections where I knew the book shouldn't be but tried anyway.

Finally, I asked one of the store assistants to help me, but to no avail.

I was very disappointed. This, according to my email notification, was the last day to redeem my "free" dollars.

I took a couple of breaths, and looked again at the $2-5 stacks.
Then I found this!
The Well-Dressed Lady's Pocket Guide
By Karen Homer

Wow!

It is a tiny book, 4x6.5", hardback, and with a creative illustration, a wispy ink drawing on the cover. (The lady's earring and the book title are in a metallic silver, which looks grey when I use photoshop.)



I skimmed through it and I liked the chapters (a good start):
- Shapes and Silhouettes
- Dresses
- Skirts

The final one being: "Your Wardrobe."

But you can't have it all; there is a section on jeans. How can you be a "lady" in jeans? Maybe they got that song title wrong: Lady in Blue and thought it meant "blue jeans."

Anyway so far so good despite glitches.

The introduction ends like this:

With the disappearance of universal fashion etiquette and previously unimaginable social mobility of the last 50 years, it might seem the wish to be well-dressed, with its connotations of snobbery and elitism, has fallen out of favour. But many women realize they want a style that endures - essentially classic, yet still individual, giving a nod to fashion but always appropriate. And while good clothes can be more expensive when compared to the disposable attitude to fashion - buy it cheap then throw it away - compiling a well-thought-out wardrobe that wll cover any occasions more economical in the long run. And that's exactly what this pocket book for the well-dressed woman will teach you how to do.

The Well Dressed Lady: Part I

Since when have women been called "ladies?"

I went to my local Chapters Indigo (mega) bookstore to redeem a $5 "top-up" they emailed me (I've been a pretty good customer averaging about 5 books/year). Actually I went yesterday to search through the choices and was delighted to find that they are doing their periodic sale of unsold books and putting them up for $2 $3 $5 $7, the highest for $10. They have put them is semi-subject classifications. But all that really amounts to is "fiction vs. nonfiction."

I found what looked like a nice story called Moonlight in Paris for $2 and went to buy it.

The lovely lady (yes a lady) at the cash said that I would have to find a book $5 or more to redeem my points, otherwise I would have to pay outright.

"That defeats the whole purpose!" I said. "I think I will just go back and look for some more."

At this point I usually take the book in hand and put it back where I found it so that I can locate it easily next time around, but I forgot to do so.

"Your hair looks lovely!" I said to her. She usually has it up in a bun and now it is a low cut bob. It is grey (white). I thought it made her look younger and her light blue eyes were more prominent. I didn't say all this though!

"Yes it is a summer cut. It used to be really long. I had it wrapped up in a bun."

I said my goodbyes and resigned to come back the next day after I looked up books on the store's online catalogue.

Strength With Beauty

Far left: reading - Kidist Paulos Asrat

Below is the paper I presented at the UN Sustainable Development Goals conference on March 19 2016, titled: Commission on the Status of Women: Women's Empowerment/Sustainable Development.

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How do we empower young women in the Third World?

What can we give them to make their worlds and their lives better?

Beauty.

Not Chanel, or Bergorf Goodman's Spring fashion.

Not the paintings of Michel Angelo, or the music of Mozart.

These are certainly beautiful, and young girls from around the world will surely appreciate, or learn to appreciate these beautiful things.

No, this simply means teaching them to understand their own beauty, and the beauty around them:
- of their mothers and grandmothers
- their villages
- their festivals and celebrations

And the beauty in their own lives

You might ask: Don't these young girls already appreciate what is around them?

Not enough.

Chanel and Mozart are the standards by which they judge, or are made to judge their own beauty, even if they don't know who Chanel and Mozart are.

And this may make them feel that what they have is not adequate for their growth and empowerment.

For their appreciation of their own lives and cultures.

A young Ethiopian girl, growing up in her 21st century village, will surely have seen many examples of European beauty. And a clever tailor in her village can reproduce dresses and skirts as close as he can to what those magazine models are wearing.

But, what about the shawl and dress, the netela and kemis, the hand-woven cloths, embroidered with familiar emblems? A dress she knows so well that she can discern to the fold of the netela who is wearing it correction, and who is not? And she can judge who is wearing it with a style superior to the others? The one who looks beautiful?

And it is not only the clothing, its folds, the embroidery that makes this image, but also the dignity of the girl that makes it all stand out.

The beautiful quality of the wearer, whether she is physically beautiful or not, her dignity and demeanor, her modesty and charm, will add more value, more beauty to the dress, as the dress also compliments her beauty
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So, if a girl is so discerning of her surroundings, it is surely through her surroundings that we can expect her to follow guidance and directions to make her life better.

Her base is her culture and her environment. What she will do is influenced by what is around her. And her successes will reflect this, making her efforts all the more important and productive.

What if someone told her that this is what beauty is, and it is far better for her because she can discover from the colors she chooses for her embroidery and the way she wears her netela, her own culture's beauty, and her own confidence?

Beauty also will make her aspire to bigger and better things in search of that superior color, that fine weave, to make the best dress.

Since this young girl is willing to invest so much time in making her cultural creations and appearances as perfect as possible, we should help her in performing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in the same spirit.

We should convince her that these goals, when performed with the same care and diligence that she does with these things she cares so much about, will give her a successful life. That she already has the tools.

We can teach her that just as much as she wants to have a beautiful netela and kemis, she can also attain these important sustainable development goals through the same diligence that she has learnt since a child.

Her culture is her empowerment. Beauty is her tool.

Post-Trump "Me-Toer" Megyn Kelly

Imagine your journalistic trajectory: Going from interviewing a future president of the United States to staging a "talk show" where you discuss "cozy fashion finds..." under a blanket!

Below is a four-minute segment:



The abrasive and non-photogenic Kelly is plodding through a morning talk show with ample arm movements and chuckles pretending to have a good time. And let's not forget the stilettos and skin-tight dresses.

What would she ask Pres. Trump if he ever came on her show (the likelihood of which - her asking and his accepting - are pretty high)?

It's not that she has forgiven him - she finds any occasion to throw covert jabs at him - but she would want to show him she's risen above her embarrassment and is back on television. And this time where she would have 100% support - by the 99% all-woman audience.

Imagine though going from "news" reporting (and even if some was fake news she got to meet big important people such as heads of states!) to talking about cozy blankets!

Kelly of course brought up her "Me Too" moment on her show on October 23, 2018:

"I know, because I complained...I wrote an email to the co-presidents of Fox News, Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy, an email have never made public but am sharing now because I think it speaks volumes about powerful men and the road blocks one can face in taking them on."

Watch Kelly on her 4 minute confession and group hug, dressed in a somber black dress (a precursor to the Hollywood "Black for Me Too" extravaganza):





Below, Kelly is on her October 23 confessional show as she interviews Juliet Huddy, another Me Too-er who also accused Fox News' Bill O'Reilly.

Both are dressed up for the event with black, but fancy dresses, and the prerequisite super heels.

The poor self-effacing man is attorney Doug Wigdor "handling 22 claims against Fox News" according to Kelly's introduction.



It is incredible that "allegations" becomes a lynching word. Trial without judge or jury! Welcome to the Post Modern Feminist Movement.

Welcome to the Brave New World!

The Power of Woman Saving the World in Haute Couture

Nicole Kidman is coiffed and made up by a backstage team of who knows how many so that she can come out onto the Golden Globes stage looking like this.



So tells us this Nicole fan, inadvertently hitting the mark with Kidman's fairy dress. The Time's Out black has channeled darker forces where women stand with uplifted fists in flimsy glittering dresses to attack men and society. It only takes one (male) engineer to turn off those lights at the Globes and render Kidman aflutter. Imagine going to war dressed like a fairy!

The Australian actress gave us a sneak preview of Clare Waight Keller’s debut Spring 2018 Haute Couture collection for Givenchy, wearing a bewitching black gown.

"Wow. The Power of women! Huh!" Nicole mumbles as she accepts her globe

The dress is a Givenchy custom made gown whose price tag is off the charts. No ordinary "Time Outer" could ever in her dreams afford wear a dress like this.

And her accessories are:

Fred Leighton [jewelry], including Art Deco diamond earrings set in platinum; an Art Deco emerald, diamond and black enamel bangle; a 6.10-carat Art Deco old European diamond ring set in platinum; and an Art Deco diamond and platinum ring.

It's Time's Out with a six-figure wardrobe.

Here's a rundown of her hair helmet and makeup war paint:



- Her hair is that now popular manufactured disheveled look promoted by couture coiffeurs
- Cream or moisturizer on the skin
- Primer for her face to "prime" or prepare the skin and allow makeup to stay longer on the skin so it doesn't run in the heat of the spotlight
- Concealer to cover any dark shadows around her eyes or dark spots on her skin
- A foundation base to even out any flaws on her skin
- A highlighter cream to add glow to her face, especially around the cheekbones
- A rose-colored rouge to give her cheeks a youthful blush
- Eye-shadow primer to prepare the lids and lets the shadow stay longer on the lids so it doesn't run in the heat of the spotlight
- Baby blue eye-shadow to bring out her eyes
- Silver glitter eye-shadow on the corners and the top of her lids to make her eyes sparkle
- A pre-mascara treatment for her lashes to protect them from the mascara
- Black waterproof mascara
- False eyelashes, or lash extensions
- Lip "plumper" cream for fuller lips
- "Primer" for the lips to prevent lipstick (or lip gloss) from "flaring out" or from fading
- A lip liner slightly darker than the lipstick or gloss to contour the lips again to prevent lipstick (or lip gloss) from "flaring out"
- Lipstick sightly lighter that the liner applied to the lips using a lip brush
- Lip gloss slightly paler than the Lipstick to add a shimmer to her lips
- And the whole face is sprayed with a makeup setting spray

That's it!

But nothing must be overdone. We don't want her looking like those old, spent Hollywood under cakes makeup, who get called "legends" before they're even dead.

And of course the mandatory black nail polish, with at least a layer of top coating plus two layers of polish to make sure the goth polish stays on and no nail chips off.

Our fashion commentators elaborate:

The dress blackout thing worked out really well for Miss Nicole – at least, from our perspective, since we’ve spent years telling her (i.e., impotently ranting at her image) that she’s one of those rare birds who really come to life when she’s wearing black. Give her a little shimmer and sparkle, a little ruffle and romanticism; render it all in Disney-Witch Black and she never fails to look stunning. We understand why she wouldn’t want to step out in black every time she steps out, but we sure wish she’d stay in the darker end of the spectrum when making her public style choices, instead of defaulting to the washed-out, tea-stained romantic looks she tends to favor more often than not.

At first, we found all the foofaraw on the back a little distracting and silly, but once we decided they were fairy wings, we decided we loved it. Sparkle on, Goth Tinker Bell.

I don't think it is any accident that fairy dust and black goth are the theme this year as these women declared that black was their dress code.

There is a nefarious force creeping its way upward into our world ready, to capture and manipulate any anomalies. Fake News rapes and Woman Power are the perfect ruse to destabilize our world and Godly order to let the serpent in.

The globe has what is actually a reel of film looping around it in a sinewy curve. It is a snake with its head peering at the top. If we wait any longer, we might see its tongue flickering at us. Those Eves in black have already fallen for its charm.



And here is the the perfect man for the Modern Abused Hollywood Warrior Woman:


Keith Urban

The Marchesa and the Macho

Below is an article I wrote in 2013 on Georgina Chapman, the fashion designer behind the Marchesa label. She is married to Harvey Weinstein, but not for long.

Here is a post I wrote on her perfume, Marchesa's D'Extase.

Weinstein was cavorting around with Hollywood women and WHY!! with such a beautiful wife? I always wondered why she married him, the corpulent and crass "media mogul." She has her own millions, and talent too. She started Marchesa in 2004 and married Weinstein in 2007, although he may have pulled some Hollywood strings to get it started. Still designers come and go and Marchesa is now a big name. I guess it must be his machoness. "He's incredibly charming and so charismatic, it sort of draws you in," she says in an interview.

And why is he doing this? Well the truth is that his wife is successful, independently rich, and powerful in her field (Hollywood fashion). So that doesn't give him much to do as a husband. I already noted her modern-feminist-who-wants-it-all attitude in the article linked to above, where I comment on a video publicity of her perfume:

The ad...has one of the women rambling on about the perfume making a woman feel powerful, special, intoxicating, beautiful, sensual, confident, strong, ethereal. Is there any adjective missing for this woman who wants it all?

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A Blush of Rose
June 23, 2013
Reclaiming Beauty


Perfume bottle for D'Extase
I have photoshopped the image to give the bottle a rose hue.
Otherwise, it looks a bland colorless crystal.

It's time I posted on a perfume.

Marchesa has a perfume out. It is their first one. About time!

I went to Sephora's to look around for what's new, and I found D'Extase sitting on the shelf. I had seen it before, had smelt it, and wasn't overly impressed by it. I decided to give it another try.

The salesgirl was pleasant. She said she's "In love with the perfume." I'm now used to the word "love" being thrown around for all kinds of things: "I loved the movie!" "I love how you do your hair!" "I love [fill in the actress/celebrity of the month here]!"

"I'm in love with [fill in some fashion item like a dress, shoes, lipstick, nail polish color, perfume]!"

I simply went off and sprayed the perfume on those sample strips of paper they have provided for us. Again, nothing impressive.

I went to the Sephora data base, and looked it up.

These are the notes for D'Extase:

Iris Flower, Freesia, Black Current, Young Violet Leaves, Lotus Flower, Night Blooming Jasmine, Bulgarian Rose Water, Orange Blossom, Iris Root, Ambrox, Captive Musks.

Rose water, jasmine and musk? These are my favorite ("I LOVE jasmine and rose together!").

Then I thought I should give it some time to settle and for the notes to combine together.

Sure enough, after about five minutes, it became something very different. After about fifteen, it had reached its peak and stayed that way for several hours.

The scent is floral, but not insipid. Musky, but not overwhelming. Slightly sweet from the jasmine but not clingy.

These Marchesa ladies are smart.

I asked the salesgirl to give me a sample. At $72 for 30ml, it will not be a purchase I will make any time soon, but I will keep the scent alive with the tiny (5ml) sample I have.

The perfumer (the nose, in perfume technical language) is Annie Buzantian, who has created a long list of perfumes with well-known designers.

I wonder if she chose perfume composition because of her long nose?


Annie Buzantian

The designer of the bottle is Malin Ericson, who appears to work for Calvin Klein and Nina Ricci. The bottle isn't that special. They could have added a blush of pink to it, or lavender, and designed the crystals around that. Here is the beautiful bottle for Violet Eyes by the aesthete Elizabeth Taylor:


Violet Eyes
by Elizabeth Taylor

I've reviewed Violet Eyes here. It has that combination of rose and violet. The cedar gives it a lighter quality, which while musk would have made it too heavy. Elizabeth Taylor's choices
are perfect.


The beautiful Georgina Chapman, of Marchesa,
with her multi-millionaire husband film mogul Harvey Weinstein
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Our Fierce New Governor General

I introduce to you Julie Payette, the new Governor General of Canada.



Payette stands by the throne as she was sworn in at the ceremony held on Parliament Hill this morning.

Our new GG has a fierce sense of fashion. It seems everything she chooses is fierce, just like her career in astronomy, and her flight out to space, albeit as the "the second Canadian woman to have flown in space."

Here she stands at the throne in Parliament Hill at her swearing in, proud and happy, almost looking angelic with her crinkly hair floating across her shoulders. And still, we dare not call her "une" astronaute.

Mental Health, Mental Resilience, and the Masculine Psyche

Determined Zach, with his parents. meeting with the Mayor of Barrie before he set off for his march to save souls

A young boy from Barrie, Ontario did a fundraiser walk/run/cycle from Barrie to Ottawa to "raise awareness and funds for youth mental health." He says got the idea from Terry Fox, another Canadian cross-country fundraiser who made his historic walk across Canada to raise money and awareness for cancer on one leg, the other having been amputated from cancer.

But what was it that really triggered Zach's efforts?

Well here is a report on his mother Shelley Hofer from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto in 2012:

Shelley’s sought various treatments for twenty years, but traces her feelings of sadness, crying for unexplained reasons, and depression back to age five or six. She’d tried psychotherapy and medications without much relief.

And here is what she says:

“It’s hard to explain that you’d feel so low and the only way out is to take your own life,” explains Shelley, who has been getting treatments at CAMH for a decade. “I would have died if I didn’t get this help.”

And another, not readily available piece of information:

Zach Makes Tracks is a 410-kilometre trek to Parliament Hill.
He's accompanied by his mom Shelley and his stepdad Derek.

His mother "suffered" from the "disease" leaving this young, already fatherless boy, bereft and motherless.

I tried to figure out what was exactly this "mental health" this woman "suffered" from.

All I could deduce was that it was the usual "lack of self-esteem" that seems to be afflicting women, young and old, and almost always white, in this world full of pressures, where women are no longer allowed to be women but a masculinized form of themselves, in line with the aggressive and pervasive feminist world in which we all live, and where men have been demasculinized.

Striving for feminists' standards doesn't make us into successful female managers and CEO, but divorced, unhappy women with amorphous psychological ailments.

And everyone bears the brunt, including those like young Zach, who talks about his "mental illness," which is simply his attempt at understanding his mother's suffering, and which he, in his boyish masculine way, wishes to cure.

He did so much better at confronting the problem than Ms. Hofer, who retreated into self-pity without regard for what she was doing to her family, including her young son.

So this is the lot of young, white boys, whose parents (and whose society) have deemed them "mentally unstable," yet who can prove themselves far sturdier than anyone around them when given the chance, and, like Zach, even when not.

And would (has) an ordinary young girl done anything similar where she confronts the dangerous elements of nature and technology, by herself, to raise money for a cure?



So far, the best women have done is run in groups for short spurts in order to sell pink ribbons. I couldn't find any young girls who took this on as something to emulate.

Being a minor, Zach had his father ride with him through the course

Transgender Them When They're Young

Alexandra DeSanctis debating wth Peter Sterne at Bold TV's Is Trump at War With the Press
(She is Right/Left: He is Left/Right)

I recently posted the article Catch them While They're Young about a story-telling event at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, where a lesbian writer who published a "transgender" book for toddlers was given a weekly slot at the gallery to use the book for story-telling events with toddlers.

And here is an article at the National Review Online today:

Forcing Transgender Ideology on Kindergartens

So far so good (at least with the title). But further down the author - Alexandra Desanctis (brief bio at NRO: "Alexandra DeSanctis is a National Review Institute William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, theology, and the Constitution.") - adds this:

The kindergarten teacher did not notify parents of the lesson and ceremony [“transition ceremony” for a gender-dysphoric student in her class, introducing him to other students as a boy before he changed into a dress and announced his new, female name."] in advance; they found out only after their children came home and told them. Many of the students reported being “deeply emotionally bothered and traumatized,” according to Jonathan Keller of California Family Council, a group that has been counseling the families about their rights.

What do they teach in theology classes these days? How about: What is Right and what is Wrong. What is Truth and what is Falsehood? The big questions on morality, which is exactly where "transgenderism" fits.

If the best parents can do is demand their "right" to know what their children are being taught, then how will they explain to little Johnny: "No. You are a boy and can never be a girl." And tell young Mary: "Listen here young lady, you don't change what God gave you."

Of course the problem is clear, and deep. These parents DO NOT believe in gender specification. "You can be whatever you want to be" is what they've grown up with and damned if they wont impart that bit of wisdom, and fight to do so if necessary, to their own cherubs.

And through what lack of moral analysis can a theological writer, who appears to be "con" transgenderism, not realize this?

Pretty and Petrified

Photographs By: Kate T. Parker

“You don’t need to be pretty, perfect or compliant to be loved.”
Kate T. Parker: Photographer

The above diptych (which I put together) is from a book of photographs by Kate T. Parker, Strong is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves.


https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/deals-of-the-week/books/inspiring?EMS_SEG=SEED&EMS_MT=OL&EML_TOKEN=63D2FCF3-0A09-4B0F-9310-CC12723116E4&EMS_MID=EML_2017_08_21_DOTW21_TAR&EMS_CID=260738886
Hillary Kate and Malala at Inidgo Chapters
PHOTO

The book came out in 2014, but I just got my weekly email notification from Indigo Books for a 30% reduction! I guess no-one is buying the book (anymore).

And it is a diptych alongside Hillary Clinton's What Happened, where:

Hillary tells the story of what it was like to be the first woman nominated for president in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, kooky theatrics, Russian interference, a maddening inattention to serious issues, deplorable (yes, deplorable) bigotry, and an opponent who broke all the rules.

Hillary failed! And the folks at Indigo's publicity department are clueless to the irony of juxtaposing "strong girls" with a weak (failed) woman!

So much for feminists.

Below is what Kate T. Parker posted on her blog about her photographs:

My girls know that who they are is just perfect.

Their silly, adventureous [sic], frustrated, happy, LOUD, athletic, fierce, funny selves.

Being themselves is enough for us. And ultimately, for them, too...that’s the goal, at least.

They don’t need to have their hair done, clothes matching, or even be clean to be loved or accepted.

We love them as they are, loud, dirty, competitive...just like my parents loved me for being um, the exact same way.:)I wanted this series of images to show their boldness, their strength and the beauty in them, as they are.

Strong is the new pretty.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/living/strong-is-the-new-pretty-kate-parker-photography-parents-feat/index.html
Parer and her husband encourage their kids to "go outside and play and get muddy, play soccer, do a triathlon, go jump in the bushes."


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3031145/Kate-T-Parker-transforms-candid-images-daughter-s-adventures-empowering-photo-series-celebrating-girls-strength.html
'My kids are this, you know? Athletic and strong and dirty and loud and crazy,' she told the outlet. 'That’s what I’m trying to celebrate.'



When the Today show shared Ms Parker's story on their Facebook page yesterday, it was liked nearly 25,000 times and inspired hundreds of parents to post photos of their own daughters doing the things that they love.
'Already a fierce little girl! Girls play in the mud and with sticks too!' Mary Kenyon wrote of her daughter.
'Determined and strong that's what all girls should be made of!' Cheryl Koscielniak Brzyski added.
Meanwhile, Charlotte Yarbrough Knowles noted: 'My daughter is amazing. She is intelligent, funny and so filled with potential. In our world, it is hard to be a strong woman, but she is finding her way. I cannot wait to see what she will do.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3031145/Kate-T-Parker-transforms-candid-images-daughter-s-adventures-empowering-photo-series-celebrating-girls-strength.html

Eve vs. Mary for Mother's Day

Mosaic of Mary
St. Michael's Hospital Chapel in Toronto
[Photo By: KPA]

Fareed Zakaria, "host of CNN’s flagship foreign affairs show," interviewed writer "and I'm not even a Christian" (what is he, Jewish?) Bruce Feiler on CNN on mother's day. The topic was "Eve and modern motherhood" to discuss the book that Feiler wrote: The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us.

Feiler explains his choice of a female biblical character to represent Mother's Day by saying:

Being a mother...

"...in some ways is the main goal of the story. The first commandment - it's NOT the Ten Commandments. That comes in the Book of Exodus. It's in the book of Genesis where God says to them 'Be fruitful and multiply." This is the story of Genesis, of generations. In order for the story to succeed, we need this relationship to succeed. And that's in some ways one of the great discoveries of this journey that I've been on."

He's talking about Eve of course.

I say: This is the mother who was kicked out of paradise for seducing her husband into betraying God! How about the purest of mothers, Jesus' mother?!

Fareed of course will never want to discuss that. And I'll bet Feiler has no sympathy for Christians despite his long trek through the Biblical land:

When I did “Walking the Bible [Fieler's travels to find the places the Old Testament stories took place]” it was a very personal journey...Were these stories real? Could I find the places where they took place?

Turns out the CNN conversation was between the Muslim Fareed and the Jew Feiler. I had them both pegged.

Christianity is being debunked in such sophisticated and subtle ways these days that only the seasoned warriors can tell when it is happening.

Here is Laura at The Thinking Housewife writing on Mother's Day and her prayer to Mary:

O Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of the Infant Babe of Bethlehem, and Our Mother, enkindle in our hearts the spark of youthful innocence. We know of thy great love for little children. It was to innocent children that thou didst deign to appear, revealing the Message of Fatima, and charging them with its propagation. We know no better way to show our regard for them, dear Mother, than to offer our prayers for all children, everywhere. Therefore, O Mother dear, we ask thee to watch over all children in all parts of the world, to guard and protect their homes, to preserve the schools wherein they learn, and to keep them from being tainted with Godless education. Direct them in their play and in all their works, that they may grow in age, wisdom, and the love of God. Grant too, Blessed Mother, that the prayers of our children may hasten the end of all wars of carnage and devastation, and grant unto this world an era of just and lasting peace. We pray that the world may return to Jesus, thy Son, through Reparation to thy Immaculate Heart.

Our Lady of Fatima, we beseech thee to inflame our hearts with the love of Reparation.

[Source: St. Gertrude the Great Sunday bulletin, Mother’s Day, 2017]

Below is Zakaria's interview of Feiler on the CNN program GPS.

Ivanka's Roles: Part Deux Aka:You've come a long way....

Ivanka, author, working mom and all round multi-tasker...

...made ALL of the agents watching her family some sweets that were hand-delivered by Jared and their two oldest children, Arabella, 5, and Joseph, 3.

It is wonderful to see her come out and do something like this for the secret service. The left has been attacking Ivanka in a relentless fashion and it is NOT OKAY. We have had people saying that her family does not deserve to be protected. It does not make ANY sense.

Be sure to add to her coffers by purchasing her book.

Ivanka's Roles

The Super Mom/Super Adviser

Is Ivanka Trump, shoe designer, and recently named Executive Branch Employee/ Informal Adviser to the President, so smart as to sit as her father's "Informal Adviser-in-Chief?"

I doubt it.

Behind every Executive Branch Employee/Informal Adviser to the President, there is a Senior Adviser.

“A lot of their real interactions happen when it’s just the two of them,” says her approving husband, Jared Kushner, who was officially named Senior Adviser to the Trump administration in January.

I doubt that. Kushner gets to hear all about the "informal advising" prior to his wife's meeting with her Dad, as he gives her his Senior Adviser's advice.

The Super Mom/Super Busy Ivanka, Executive Branch Employee/Informal Adviser to the President, has a "list for connecting with each of" her three kids before they go to sleep. I doubt this is a daily schedule.

“I put real thought into coming up with ideas for memorable moments I can create with each of them,” she writes. “Right now, I play with cars with Joseph, on the floor, for twenty minutes each day. Arabella loves books, so I make a note to read at least two per day to her and plan ‘dates’ to the library. With Theodore, I commit to ensuring that I can give him two to three of his bottles each day and rock him to sleep at night.”

"We've Come a Long Way..."