Family Photos

Peter Brimelow of Vdare with wife Lydia Brimelow
Photo for their 2018 end-of-year donation drive for Vdare
with a letter signed by Lydia Brimelow

Note: All photos are from Vdare or Brimelow's twitter page, unless otherwise noted

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Here is a linked article I originally found through James Perloff's tweet (via Henry Makow's tweet - thank God for hyperlinks!) referring to an article from Slate "Is It OK to Be This Annoyed About Older Men Who Date Much Younger Women?"

I'm not sure about annoyed, but rather "creeped out" might be the right phrase. The Slate article uses the childish word "ick" to describe "May-December frolicking" as an "ick-factor."

Why care that two consenting adults are canoodling when a demagogue is about to take the White House? (Donald Trump, for the record, is 24 years older than his wife Melania, and each time he’s gotten married, it’s been to a younger woman. But anyway.) It’s just so transparent, watching one of these paragons of fragile masculinity take his male privilege out for a spin and realize he can date someone so young she won’t know how inappropriate it is. High five! Why not father a child you’ll be too old to raise properly while you’re at it? The exact ages and differentials vary, but each one reinforces one important point: Women get less valuable as they age, while men just get to enjoy the ride.

The article continues:

...different experiences and life stages are inevitably going to make it harder to relate. Attention from an older man might feel flattering, but do your future self a solid and ask: Why isn’t this guy interested in people his own age?

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...if someone wants you to be the May to their December or vice versa, don’t let ‘em. In the end, this is no time to be a traitor to your generation. Instead, find someone your own age who’s even hotter. Get you a man you can talk about Pokémon Go with—or get you a woman you can talk about the Carter administration with.

The writer has it just right. But more than that, such a disparity in age will most likely (most certainly, I would say) results with children who will probably never see their father live to see them through to their late-teenage and young adulthood years, usually the age when most offspring need a strong father figure holding court at home even (and these days it becomes more apparent, especially) young women. The mother is the court-holder and home regulator for both boys and girls through their childhood and early teens. At those later ages, when both boys and girls are ready to take on the world, they require and need the presence of their stabilizing father.

There is a psychological theory out that boys are the ones who need their dads most at these early ages. But I disagree. The promiscuity, the feminism-induced "girl-power," and other modern blights we see in young girls is a direct result of released anger at a father who didn't (couldn't) fulfill his role.

The individual decision between such couples to marry and have offspring now becomes a societal problem of adults in arrested psychological development, searching perennially for their stability.

Perhaps the best these May-December couples can do is simply not have children. But that would be terribly unfair to the younger (much younger) of the couple and often the one with no prior children, who has to sacrifice decades of child-bearing age to be in a marriage and a husband who most likely will not be around to support her.

The best they can do is not marry at all.

I made a similar judgment years ago in 2010 at my blog Camera Lucida: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. And Two Pictures?. I've posted the full article below the photos:



September 2018, with Brimelow's two older children from his previous marriage (with Maggie Laws Brimelow who died of cancer in 2004), and newer family


Daughters in December 2017


With Son and Infant Daughter in 2015

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Camera Lucida
November 20, 2010
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. And Two Pictures?


Mr. and Mrs. Brimelow, with infant child in tow.
(Photo from the H.L. Mencken Club Club Conference in 2010)

I've been debating whether to post these photos. But, they are on public sites, and are obviously meant to be looked at and commented on.

Look at the first photograph, with Peter Brimelow as a "new" (old) father but closer in age to being a great-grandfather. He's with his new wife, Vdare contributor Lydia Sullivan who writes under the pen name Athena Kerry, who is holding their infant child. From what I've read at Brimelow's site Vdare and what Wikipedia tells me, his new wife is forty years younger than him! Still, Sullivan has a hard glint in eyes like someone that goes after what she wants, and gets it. Such character doesn't discriminate by age.

The top photo was taken at the 2010 M.L. Mencken conference where Brimelow presented a paper. He took the infant girl along. I presume he did this to show her. But why that awkward expression, as though he's in the wrong place, with the wrong people, at the wrong time? Also, he shows a strange deference towards Sullivan, the way he's leaning a little too humbly towards her and the infant. Usually, a new father stands proud and straight next to his family, especially in a public setting.

Didn't Lydia Sullivan, a.k.a. Athena Brimelow, have any family members, a concerned and conservative mother who said "under no circumstances" at the prospect of this marriage? Brimelow is close to seventy. Some father he will be to a young child. Was there no one thinking of the ensuing babies, who was concerned by the prospect that they might be born, and endure such a life?

Such is the case with "conservatives" these days, who really behave like liberals. But Brimelow is an avowed libertarian, so his motto is, "I'll do what I wish, and apres moi le deluge." Yes, the whole thing is as pompous as Louis XV's famous phrase. At least his excuse was that he was King of France. What does Brimelow have? And look what happened to Louis and his reign. Or more like, what Louis wrought.


L-R: Genevieve Sullivan (sister), Grandmother Von Talbot,
Mother Deonne Sullivan, and Lydia Sullivan

The second photo is of Sullivan with the female members of her family: her grandmother, mother and sister. Sullivan is at the far right. Again, I am struck by the hard edge in her eyes. Her sister is on the far left. What a difference. One would have thought that the grandmother, who looks strict and principled, might have been the one to rein things in.

The Disappearance of Julie Chen

There is a lot to write about Julie Chen, who supported her CBS head honcho husband's, Les Moonves', adulterous life to maintain her media status in CBS. She hosted, or fascistically ruled, her crew and co-hosts at the CBS daytime gabfest talk show The Talk (and WHO thought up that mildly pornographic name??) through fear of repercussions from her powerful husband for anyone who digressed from her views (and wishes, and desires). Moonves had put Chen, his wife, it worth repeating, at the helm of The Talk. Two women were actually fired in the early days of The Talk because they grumbled about these nepotistic arrangements.

Chen left, or quit, when Moonves' historic indiscretions began to surface, even after their marriage, leaving her pathetic feminists minions at odds on how to deal with her departure. Moonves, their big boss CBS, became the ire of the #MeToo movement, and yet here was his wife (who married him after an affair when he ditched his first wife) embroiled in the very lifestyle they decried.

Hypocrites (on all parties) doesn't even begin to cover it.

Chen still runs that creepy Big Brother, another Moonves enterprise, where she earned her second-rate fame before The Talk, where psychopathic and sociopathic contestants live in the same house, with no exit, performing various "challenges" until there is a last man standing to carry off the 1 million dollar cash prize.

Sartre would have cringed at this appropriation. "Huis Clos! C'est pour l'éternité!!!" he would have wailed in his shocked French manner about his literary living arrangement. Not some exit with a cash prize.

Chen is pretty much how Asian women behave. They prefer to be in the background rather than upfront and target-prone, as Chen eventually became on The Talk. What exactly would they (she) stand for, and how would they defend their "positions" when pressed?

Clearly Chen was no champion for the American Woman. She was perfectly happy as the wife of serial adulterer Moonves (although she pretended to be some free woman) cashing in on all the spoils.

But the joke's on us (and all those minions). She was the ultimate "Big Brother" waiting out for the big cash prize. "But where's our Big Sister!!??" would wail her co-hostesses. She's run off with the money.

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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Four Good Reasons for Marriage

The Basics:
British Army folding bed: ca. 1860

More of the above at:

Royal Warrants, Circulars, General Orders and Memoranda
Issued by the War Office and Horse Guards
August 1856 - July 1864

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Allan Roebuck, over at The Orthospehere writes on the topic of marriage:

I argue here that most men should attempt to marry, for several basic reasons. First, marriage is necessary for the survival of a people. Second, men (and women) need to be a part of a good order if they are to live well and a good social order includes marriage. And three, men were designed for leadership, as they are more attuned to the practical application of truth and justice, and are more able to impose their will on a situation, than women are.[Bolds are mine, for clarity]

He forgot one important point:

Fourth: Wives have a civilizing influence on husbands. Other than the desire to protect their wives, and the children that ensue, the very character of women civilizes men.

I think this is noticeable in the home. Regardless of the domestic influence of the wife (making the house habitable, the environment clean, and the atmosphere peaceful), a husband behaves far more civilly in his home than when in his workplace or other exterior environment.

And if his home life is civil and peaceful, and he has a trustful wife to tend to that, then his external behavior is also affected.

Think of soldiers, who have been away from their homes for months, and whose only company are other soldiers. Their existence, outside of the brutality of war, is a camaraderie of loud, boisterous interactions. They would not behave this way towards woman, and would most likely not behave this way with each other if they were in their homes with their wives and children nearby.

Or think of bachelors. Even those with erudition and great education are victim to the infamous "bachelor's pad," which is really more about having the proper environment to accomplish a purpose, whether it is to write the novel, or to have a place for whisky and frolics. They are content with the basics of domestic life: food, shelter and sleep.

When the purpose is to protect his wife and children, and their upkeep, the man's behavior and environment change accordingly. This domestic civility manifests itself with social and cultural civility, upon which societies, and countries, are built.
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Young and Lesbian: An Epidemiology?

Photo from article: "Why Are So Many Girls Lesbian or Bisexual?"
From: Psychology Today, April 3, 2010
By: Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
These look just like the "college best friends" I write about below

Camille Paglia would be intrigued, and horrified, at this epidemiology of young lesbians, cheerfully "coming out."

Ellen Page

A few days ago, a young and pretty Canadian actress, Ellen Page, declared herself to be a closeted lesbian, that is until that moment when she dramatically announced to whomever bothered to listen: I am gay. She's twenty-six years old at this announcement, but according to her testimony, had been "gay" for years.

I found her video on New York Post's online magazine. It was hard to miss on the side column, with a large photo of her, and the headline: Tired of Hiding: Actress Ellen Page Comes Out as Gay.

Page is claiming that her "coming out" is "a personal obligation and a social responsibility [direct quote from the Youtube video here around the 6:15 minute point]", and is otherwise a "traumatic event."

It is interesting to see that "coming out" in the 21st century is such a traumatic event. I thought we had taken care of stigmatizing gays and had built such a "gay-friendly" world that people were declaring their "true selves" left and right.

Well, not so, apparently. Page tearfully declares: "I suffered for years because I was scared to be 'out'." Didn't Ellen DeGeneres, pernicious model for this young Ellen, present us with her "secret" in a similarly tearful declaration seventeen years ago? Her career hasn't diminished one bit, and in fact has climbed since then.


Page with "girlfriend"

Page was brought up in Eastern Canada, in Nova Scotia. Her parents divorced when she was very young, and her father remarried. She lived with her mother. At about fifteen, Page enrolled herself into a "Buddhist" school, with no academic structure, which emphasized "the arts." And her parents let her do this! Divorce is hard on any child, but a structureless one must be harsh. And worse, letting a young teenager decide on her intellectual and spiritual development is bizarre and cruel.


This is the best I could find of Page with her father.
Notice the impish quality of the father, who looks like he's out with his young son.
But then, what young boy would cling to his father like that?
Such is the ambiguous world of tomboys.


Page with her mother, looking dishevelled and tomboyish.
It looks like they were both out at some film premier,
where Page should be the star, but is upstaged
by her glamorous mother instead.

But homosexuality is still a social stigma, if "celebrities" have to make such a spectacle about their revelations. Normal, ordinary people, those that pay the films and shows to keep DeGeneres and Page in the business, will momentarily forget a gay person his abnormality as long as he entertains well. And if homosexuality is still a social stigma, despite all these efforts to normalize it, then it will always remain a social stigma.

And just in time for Obama's homosexual agenda of equality, the PBS program To The Contrary "for women, by women, about women" (my quotations), recently included on its panel an articulate black women, Danielle Moodie-Mills. I wondered who she was, with her caked make-up and twisted stringy hair.


Moodie on the PBS program To The Contrary, which aired a couple of weeks ago

I found her profile all over the internet, since then. She is a black lesbian, whose "marriage" to another black woman was profiled in the black magazine Essence. They "married" in 2010, Mills at 32 and Moodie 31, and had "been together" for six years before that, which means they started this "relationship" when they were in their early twenties.


Danielle Moodie, on the right, is:
Advisor, LGBT Policy and Racial Justice
Center for American Progress
Nonprofit; 201-500 employees; Think Tanks industry
(LinkedIn Profile)

and Ayisha Millis is:
...a Senior Fellow and Director of the FIRE - Fighting Injustice to Reach Equality - Initiative at the Center for American Progress, where her work explores the intersections of race, class, and sexuality.
(Center for American Progress profile)

They both have those fluffy jobs just right for the Obama administration.

There must be dozens around of these "lesbians" around. Girls walking around the mall, chattering and laughing: are they "young lesbians"? Two young women eating in a restaurant, fancily dressed: are they on a date? A couple, women, picking up a young child at school or at a day care: are they "two mommies"? And so on.

I won't go into the pshychological, sociological, cultural, School of Camille Paglia, analyses of what I'm seeing here, so here's my take, at least on Page, Moodie and Mills.

There is very little information forthcoming from Moodie or Mills. I've gleaned what there is available from various websites and their limited profiles in their professional biographies.

Danielle Moodie

Danielle Moodie's only reference to her parentage (from searches around the web) is a photo of hers which appeared on Essence magazine's profile of her "marriage" to Mills. Here, she is standing with a white man, named as Michael Newton, with the caption:

Dance with my father:
Danielle’s dad Michael Newton was close to tears as he danced with his daughter on her momentous day.

Below is the photograph:


(Source: Essence)

I can only assume that she is adopted. Where is the mother (adoptee)? Why isn't she included in this wedding photograph? Is she white, black, other? What kind of life does Moodie live where she has to call a white man as her father? How hard was this for her as a young girl (assuming she was adopted young)? How much harder did it get as she became conscious of her surroundings? How did the "black identity" culture affect her identity? How does she relate to whites, and to the ominous White Male?

Aisha Mills


Mills posted this photo collage on her Twitter page

Mills was raised by her grandmother. She says: "My entire life, I have been a variety of 'others'." According to this post, her mother had "Asian" roots, but she was raised by her Black Southern Baptist grandparents, as the photos above indicate. The young, light-skinned boy in the photo collage could be her brother. Or is it her dressed in a suit and tie (as a young boy)? Yes! It is her, dressed as a young boy! So there you have it.

And here below, she is with her MIU (Missing in Upbringing) father at her "wedding."


Source: Essence
Caption reads:

Proud Father
Aisha's father James Mills kisses his baby girl and wishes her well on her big day

The Mills-Moodie "elegant affair" of a wedding included baskets of chopsticks. The ominous absence of her Asian mother must make even the most mundane of Chinese objects into bouquets of roses.


Chopstick elegance: Reaching for some ephemeral roots
Chopsticks, from the wedding album by Essence
The caption reads:
Cocktail Hour:
"The entire wedding was an elegant cocktail affair," Aisha explained.

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So what is it with these young women?

- A chaotic home life?
- A dearth of masculine young men?
- Feminism pushing young women into competitive and masculine roles, where they clash with young men, both the feminized ones, and those standing their ground and refusing to give in easily to a woman-centric environment?
- Black men, unavailable, either through their dropping out of society, their criminality, or their immaturity?
- Men refusing marriage, for fear of repercussions by feminism, and feminist women and wives?
- Men refusing to mature, and instead delaying marriage and family?
- The culture pushing, through mass media, that marriage is not necessary?
- Divorce rates, and divorce costs, high, especially (uniquely?) for men, so many opting out of marriage?
The "otherness" of the other becoming too much to deal with for young people these days, who are not used to natural competitions, and eventually some awe for differences.
- The desire by contemporary people to make everyone the same, to avoid this natural alienness or otherness of people?
- The desire to make everything "nice" and non-combative?

In any case, this "best friend" type of coupling is well suited for girls in college and high school. Under normal conditions, these girls will find staunch mothers or grandmothers who will diminish that seductive environment, give them the education they need, and place them in situations where they can lead a normal life, including building their future families.

The women I've described above are traumatized orphans, both in society and in family. They have been dealt with difficult beginnings. Since their families didn't come through for them, then it should have been up to the larger society to see that they didn't normalize their ambiguities and abnormalities. Now, as adults, they are seeped in their iniquities, and will only further terrorize society. Our job now is to see that they don't do that, and that they don't amass more vulnerable innocents along their way.
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#Biracial And PROUD

Michelle Malkin's Biracial Children

The useless Michelle Malkin is in an uproar because someone called her racist. Or rather, someone tweeted on MSNBC about a new Cheerios cereal ad which depicts a white mother and a black father, and a biracial young girl who I suppose is meant to be their offspring.

The tweet on MSNBC says (about the ad):

Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad w/ biracial family.
on.msnbc.com/1dpgQEU

Then there's a whole lot of twitching going on at Malkins #myrightwingbiracialfamily, which is at "Twitchy," a custom made twitter type of site made for Malkin. She has her latest hashtag as: #myrightwingbiracialfamily. It should be #biracial and PROUD.

There is nothing wrong with the instinctive (perhaps knee-jerk, and thoughtless) reaction of the MSNBC guy, who is only saying what he sees. True conservatives are ambivalent about inter-racial marriages, and will not put it in the focus of others' attention if there is one (in their own marriage, or a family member's marriage). They understand the difficulties of inter-racial marriages, and that such families' dynamics are distorted, often incurring split family loyalties.

Generally, if the offspring resemble the dominant culture (whites in America) these children often ambivalently follow and support that culture, but they are always on unstable ground, having to refer all their lives to the non-white member of their family. If the offspring don't resemble the dominant culture, then these children begin a long life of rejecting this dominant culture, some vociferously, others tamely. But still, rejecting it. In any case, nobody's life is easy with inter-racial marriage.

Malkin could have been humble about her family situation by saying that somehow she and Jesse Malkin made the leap to get married and raise a family, but that it was a difficult step, and is a difficult ordeal.

But perhaps it isn't so difficult for her. With her high-volume opinions, she must either intimidate or brain wash her friends, family and now political audience, into believing that her way is just fine, and that is what America is all about now.

But the fact that she's getting so worked up shows that it is still a big deal, and people (left, right, old and young) will notice such couples and families, and some might even comment on it. Theirs is not a racist reaction. It is a human reaction.

I've posted below the screenshots of Malkin's back-and-forth twitches because they are likely to be taken down by Twitchey et al. And here a the link to a site which has screen-shot the posts.




















Malkin's Twitchy site even has a "biracial,"
"bi-gender" - is that the right term? - couple.
Such is the extent to which she will take her
conservatism to defend a legitimate point.


Jesse Malkin, from a 1991 photo.
He is Malkin's husband, and the father of her two children.
I don't see any resemblances between him and his children.
This is part of the tragedy of mixed race children.
They often look nothing like one of the parents, and often have a
slim resemblance to the other. They are true orphans.

How will Malkin's Philipino-looking children behave when they grow older? I would wager that they try to be as "Philipino" as they can, and given that they are thousands of miles away from the country, this will be quite a feat. So instead, they will stick to an amorphous "non-white" narrative, even as their own father is white, and elect people like Barack Obama, and all else that follows from there (and has followed)...

Malkin's amalgam of a family has long-range consequences, least of all changing the consvervatism (and liberalism) of America.
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