Because woke is dying and #WhiteAsianIndianJewishLivesMatterToo It’s hard to stand apart from the crowd…but fortunately, it’s getting more popular. Free image from Pexels A few weeks before Christmas last year, the U.K. experienced a George Floyd-adjacent crime, an alleged ‘racist attack’. In Southampton, the police found Henry Nowak down on the ground, curled into a fetal position, moaning, “I’ve been stabbed.” They’d been summoned by the alleged victim, the brown-skinned Vickrum Digwa, who claimed a ‘racist attack’ by the white man bleeding his life away from five stab wounds. Instead of calling an ambulance and taking Digwa in—who should at least have been a ‘person of interest’, being the only one near the young man at the time—police instead handcuffed the dying man in the video and denied he’d been stabbed, then informed him he was being arrested for an alleged racism. Or something. Nowak died, and Digwa’s trial wrapped up quickly as pre-attack video refuted his racism story. It shows he had grabbed Nowak’s phone who was ‘likely’, according to the judge, trying to get it back. Digwa has been sentenced to a lifetime in prison with a minimum of 21 years. Nowak’s last words to police were, “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe!” The U.K., which exploded with righteous virtue-signalling hysteria amidst lockdown madness over George Floyd, has little to say about their own moment. The late Henry Nowak, a Polish-British citizen, was labeled the villain by police solely because of his skin color. Bolstered by a racist lie. The sad tale testifies to the progressive anti-white hate we normie liberals and conservatives must fight. White Guilt Silenced Henry Nowak - Eli Steele, The Free PressWhite People Who Hate White People Are Racist The extent of progressive racism Progressive racism includes Indians, Asians and especially Jews, racists having defined the last as the world champions of global oppression. Antisemitism drives their keffiyeh-branded Nazi-adjacent politics around the world. Muslim protesters lead the pack, Ground Zero for demonstrably higher anti-Jewish opinions than other groups. More on that in a future article. Antisemitism is racism. Because Jews have a claim to the land of Israel and whatever’s left of ‘Palestine’ no more or less than whatever’s left of the Gazans. Most progressives are ignorant of the genetic history of that part of the world. We ‘normies’, we Exhausted Majority, now have the opportunity to challenge woke racists and hold silent sheeple to the same antiracist standard to which they hold everyone who isn’t themselves. Wokeness is dying, and we can collectively drive a stake through its hateful heart. The U.K., along with their George Floyd scandal, is also being forced to reckon with their decades-long racist willful ignorance of the Pakistani-Muslim rape gangs. (If you’ve been silent on that, would you have if the colors were reversed?) Voices are calling for a Day of Reckoning for the U.K. Pakistani-Muslim community who has ignored this problem for fifty years. Coming from their community specifically, not other immigrant Muslim communities. The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, provided by a British MP after the U.K. government refused to investigate the scandal themselves, can be downloaded here. Meanwhile, back in the U.S…. Wokeness is dying, and progressive racism isn’t as cool as it used to be. An unlikely ally for the #AllRacismMatters camp is Donald Trump, who we should wholeheartedly support when he gets something right. His jam is going after DEI. He’s specifically targeted medical schools who’ve allegedly favored black and Latino students over higher-scoring whites and Asians, preferring they should prioritize merit and scholarship over skin color (yes, how ironic!); and for college admissions to provide evidence they’re not discriminating. The administration also warns against the use of ‘race proxies’ to circumvent U.S. Supreme Court rulings clearly defining that prioritizing race—any race—over merit-based considerations is a violation of students’ civil rights. That’s good news for whites, Asians, and ‘white-adjacent’ Indians. Not so much for those who coast on their biology. Come Join The More Inclusive White Supremacy 2.0*! - with my writing partner Anuradha Pandey Trump’s demanding American universities work harder to protect these groups from campus racial discrimination. According to Time magazine, Trump stated, sounding, admittedly, like school counselor Mr. Mackey in South Park, “But I think the laws are very unfair right now. And education is being very unfair, and it’s being stifled. But I don’t think it’s going to be a big problem at all. But if you look right now, there’s absolutely a bias against white [people] and that’s a problem.” Zero gold stars for eloquence but his point is clear. Anti-white, anti-Asian, and anti-Indian racism is real. Progressive. And unconstitutional. Yeah, he’s a racist himself. It takes one to know one. But he’s still right. Progressives reject that they themselves might be racist, while it’s undeniable to those who must live with progressive racism. Racism is always wrong. Whites are not universal blanket oppressors. Black people aren’t nearly as powerless as they once were, and many activists resist asking the hard, and obvious question: How are (some) black people holding themselves back? This book was written in 1990, and I read it about three years ago. It’s every bit as relevant today as it was back then. Steele digs down into black resistance to changing themselves, improving their game, competing on merit and the need to stop blaming Whitey for their own shortcomings. Support Local Bookstores: You can find the titles mentioned in this post on my Grow Some Labia page at Bookshop.org. Every purchase supports independent booksellers (and this newsletter!) Trump’s antiracism mandate extends to off-campus. His administration is vigorously enforcing the Civil Rights Act’s Title VI with an executive order reminding progressives that it includes Jews. He’s established a task force for rooting out antisemitism and is aggressively forcing action against antisemitic activity. He’s launched investigations into the most well-known and notorious elite universities who have ignored or encouraged antisemism on their campuses. I’ll just say it out loud: Good job, Donald! Don’t shy away from praising Trump just because he’s an awful human being. No one is 100% evil, or always wrong, which he’s proven. #WhiteLivesMatterToo We can de-toxify woke/black racism, and somehow repair the broken moral compasses too many self-hating white progressives, and racist black activists, carry around. Traditional liberals must stop being ‘team players’. Woke progressives aren’t on our team; they’re on Team Illiberal, along with their MAGA compatriots (and adversaries). We need to call out people like the ditzy chick who wouldn’t file charges against a black man who violently attacked her on a Manhattan subway because she ‘didn’t want to put another black man in jail.’ Presumably, she would have if he’d been white? THAT’S RACIST!He went on to murder someone shortly after. She’s now a collaborator, however unintentionally. She’s not legally responsible, of course, nor should she be; but we need to call out and push white weenies like her to file reports and ignore woke whines about racism. They’re merely projecting themselves onto her, and actively helping right-wingers who accuse progressives of being soft on crime. In another case of anti-white racism, the media was remarkably silent on the murder last year on a North Carolina light-rail line of Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian immigrant returning home from work when she was stabbed to death by a black loony-tune. Little public outcry from anyone except perhaps White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a rare moment of truth-telling to the American people on the dangers of progressive crime treatment. Wow. The Barbie Parrot understands right and wrong better than the media. The media is RACIST. How to fight progressive racism We start by defending merit and competence. We can use sports as a metaphor. Superbowls, World Series, FIFA matches, and World Cups aren’t exciting because they’re played by people chosen for their biological diversity; they’re chosen for one reason only: How good they are. Sports teams are one of the few merit-based professions left. Some are dominated by one color or another, but for economic rather than ideological or race-related reasons. Tiger Woods is one of the few black golfers in a whiter-than-Friends professional sport, but that’s because of its higher financial barriers. It’s closely linked to exclusively white country club culture which is still being dragged kicking and screaming into the post-civil rights world. Blacks and other Athletes O’ Color predominate basketball and football because they’re tickets to getting out of the ghetto if you’re really good. All you need to start is a ball. Maybe a basket. Now suggest to your favorite woke progressive sports fan that their favorite team is too white, or too black, and that DEI should replace a few for more ‘balance’. Make common sense more common We must challenge progressive racist ideology with a strict adherence to just-the- facts, ma’am. This is how I learned to combat Christian fundamentalism when I lived in the U.S. They knew the Bible far better than I, but I knew science and history far better than they. I probably didn’t convince many True Believers with my brilliant assessment of Biblical errors. But. I may have planted seeds of doubt that flowered long after I was gone. That’s what we must do with today’s True Progressive Racists. You won’t ‘win’ arguments with logic and rationalism, but their hypocrisies will begin to nag them, especially if they hear challenges from more than a few sources. If you see them regularly, keep asking the questions. Like, “Do you secretly suspect black students aren’t smart enough to compete fairly with white and Asian applicants?” Why are they so suspicious of merit? Your question makes them realize they sound racist, or at least subscribe to the bigotry of low expectations. Zero tolerance for ideology that can’t be logically defended. Period. Take note where you flagged in debates and find better responses. Don’t try to argue on their turf; ideology is malleable but the facts are not. Drag them onto your own firmer ground. The more they hear the message, the more they will begin to doubt, especially when they hear it elsewhere. Truth is cool Nazi propaganda puppy Joseph Goebbels claimed that a lie repeated often enough becomes accepted in the public mind. Guess what, that also applies to the truth. We can diminish progressive racism by speaking out. We can surround these people with the facts from which they hide. Here’s a cloud with a silver lining: They’ve got two more years of Trump and his hate-on for woke. Continually call their beliefs racist. When they hear the label enough, they’ll change, or hide. The more vocal we are, the more others will feel empowered to speak out. We especially need to challenge our liberal friends who say they agree with us normies in private but mouth progressive pieties around their racist friends. Liberals need to prove criticism of progressives isn’t ‘just Fox News Kool-Aid’. It’s widely shared. Force progressives to play it safe before making statements publicly. Make it dangerous to be publicly stupid. Ask those glaringly obvious questions, and keep asking until they answer them. We won’t change many minds, at first. But what has been heard and read cannot be undone. They might see the light later. We can change the world, one progressive racist at a time. Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? I lean left of center, but not so far my brains fall out. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter Grow Some Labia so you never miss a damn thing! There are also Substack and Spotify podcasts of more recent articles!

It's time for the grownups to challenge #MeToo victim feminists with vintage grudges, who simply refuse to grow up. “But I don’t wanna be a responsible, functional adult woman!” Image by Pexels from Pixabay Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. I think I speak for many when I say I’ve grown cold to the tired narrative that human females are helpless little victims of the patriarchy. Especially when a love affair ends in emotional pain. The Free Press covered a few recent frivolous #MeToo allegations beginning with a Stanford Law professor. Megan Wachspress proclaimed a fairly vague ‘grooming’ allegation against Daniel Biss, a mayoral incumbent just before an Illinois election in June. His opponent was the sort of uber-far-mega-left social media influencer type that’s about the only thing that brings Millennials and Zoomers to orgasm anymore. Fortunately, his path to victory was not derailed by a whiny Eternal Little Girl’s claim that he ‘groomed’ her for—well, we’re not sure for what, since no sexual contact took place, but it was the only allegation she could offer given that her story was riven with obvious consent. Wachspress had been a 20-year-old college student, and he, a 26-year-old teacher, and she took one of his classes. They went out several times after the term was over and she clearly dug him, then he cut it off because he didn’t feel quite right about the situation. This took place in 2004. She came up with a lot of silly, unconvincing reasons last month why this was ‘grooming’. Wachspress got hurt. But she’s a Millennial, so if she was ‘groomed’, it was by her parents, educators, and her peers to believe she’s entitled to a harm-free existence. She still doesn’t understand, at age 39, when she made the accusation, that love and romance are messy and we don’t always get what we want. Or who. Wachspress is an Eternal Little Girl still pouting over an unhappy love affair when she was an immature college student. The forever statute of limitations Eternal Little Girls are found primarily among Millennials and Zoomers. The roots of female victimhood stem from the Boomers and Gen X, but for good reason: Women really were oppressed, suppressed, and subject to male predation far more than today. But to misquote John Cleese, We gawt bettah. Not all of the older generations, of course. I’ve written before about wrinkly feminists still stuck in the ‘80s. If You Hold The Same Beliefs You Did Thirty Or Forty Years Ago—Why? #MeToo has turned into a monster with no statute of limitations on accusations. Women can claim victimhood against a man at any time, without evidence, just her word. #MeToo’s power may be thankfully waning, as in the case of Mayor Biss, although maybe the allegations simply came too late in the campaign to harm him. I hope it’s the former. Because that was a really dumbass story Meghan Wachspress told. We need to shine the light on women who don’t feel victimized at the time, but change their minds much later, often encouraged by their fellow fragile flowers on social media. Victimhood is a lovely place to live for the sisterhood. Victim feminists—women who see females as perpetually at the mercy of all-powerful patriarchs—hold back women and ‘turn back the clock’ more effectively than any ‘right-winger’. ‘Twas the older generations who raised today’s Eternal Little Girls, who seek validation through collective #MeToo narcissism. The movement was a great idea—to hold males accountable for genuinely bad behavior, but like all social movements, it overrreached, because it was spawned by Eternal Little Girls rather than grownups. The Eternal Little Girl, the Puella Aeterna, is a concept originating with Carl Jung, who described them as adults who resist growing up. They prefer to remain youthful (in actions if not in the inevitability of a body maturing into old age), playful, carefree, idealistic, and avoid emotional depth. The Puella Aeterna of today’s victim feminists expresses as an inability to take responsibility for one’s actions and feelings and forever blame others (primarily men), for whatever’s wrong with their lives. It’s the hallmark of today’s girl-women exemplified by Megan Wachspress: Spoiled three-year-olds trapped in women’s bodies. The Eternal Little Girls of #MeToo #MeToo has failed the accountability standard over and over. When they finally called for women’s ‘accountability’ in their interactions with men, it was to blame real victims—women—for not doing what men wanted. Ironically, a movement which claims to, in their own words, “channel their unique empathy in community with one another, and in service of a future free from sexual violence,” champions the right of fully-equipped males to invade women’s and girls’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and even prisons. Even those who have been physically and sexually victimized by men, are now expected to swallow their trauma and deal with it, according to countless #MeTooers. To please men. Who needs right-wingers to oppress women when we’ve got progressive Handmaids for the Patriarchy? They refuse their own statement by failing to protect women and girls from sexual predators—in spangly pink bikinis. Social movements, left and right, are never good at drawing boundaries. The desire to resist acknowledging victory, to keep the momentum going, to feel part of a united ‘tribe’, to relish that ‘us against the world,’ feeling is why movements, unchecked, invariably go off the rails. Trump’s MAGA movement, and Christian nationalism/fundamentalism, are both ideas from the other side taken way too far. The best, probably truest, #MeToo stories emerged in its earliest days. That’s when they took down power and clear predators. Others told tales of sexual harassment, groping, and other pretty clear-cut cases of male entitlement to female bodies. But as the movement progressed, the stories became less lurid, and sounded more like whining or minor complaints rather than serious sexual encroachment. The stories began sounding suspiciously made-up, coming from anonymous accounts who would never be held responsible for their posts or tweets unless they named names and someone filed a lawsuit. #MeToo never embraced the notion of personal responsibility for one’s life and safety, rejecting it outright in favor of a narrative that portrayed women as permanently innocent victims of alleged male rapaciousness. It laid down no boundaries for differentiating minor complaints (“He touched me lightly on the chest”) from more serious sexual allegations, like a boss who pushes an employee up against the wall or an actual rape. They catastrophized that which wasn’t serious enough to get engagement. #MeToo was birthed by an Eternal Little Girl, Tarana Burke, and its presence heavily boosted by an influential Eternal Little Girl, actress Alyssa Milano, whose childlike devotion to victimhood seriously needs to be purged by the adults in the room. It’s 2026, not 1986, young ladies. Now let’s talk about #MeToo, victim feminism, and alleged rape. The death of ‘Believe All Women’ We can comfortably have this conversation about exaggerated and false rape claims, now that many victim feminists have denied the documented mass rapes of Israeli Jewish women on Oct. 7 by Hamas. If we no longer have to ‘believe the [Jewish] women’, we no longer have to believe anyone else, either. The proper response from the grownups in the room to any ancient sexual assault allegation for which a woman has no police report and no other proof (like genetically stained clothing) is: That must have been awful. Sorry to hear that. Donald Trump Offers A Terrific Lesson On How Rape Victims Can Get True Justice How Not To Report A Rape And Compromise Your Own Credibility When You Do Many of today’s Eternal Little Girls do it for the attention. They receive support from other uncritical Eternal Little Girls. Still, even as we challenge them, we must recognize one element that’s legitimately not their fault: they were raised in a culture of safetyism, primarily by progressive-leaning parents, to believe their opinions mattered as much as an adult’s, to ignore rules they didn’t like, and that bad things that happened to them were never their fault. Because they taught they were incapable of bad judgment, they couldn’t learn from their own mistakes. We have to undo a lot of harmful parenting. We’re past the point where sexual assault allegations and predatory tactics aren’t taken seriously. Now they’re taken entirely too seriously, with testimony accepted outside the court as hard evidence when it’s not. Years after the fact, it’s she-said-he-said. Women shouldn’t be accorded more than passing attention when their accusations are older than a fine cheddar cheese. We should make it clear there’s a statute of limitations on their public credibility, and it’s a short one, if they don’t report a sexual assault before they destroy the evidence. Here are the hard facts, like ‘em or not: It’s a woman’s right not to report, but the social consequences are she may, in fact, not be believed later. It’s her choice. She abrogates the right to ruin the man with what may well be false accusations twenty years later. Victim feminists won’t acknowledge that victims are entirely too powerful, when they can ruin a man’s reputation or career with unsubstantiated allegations. I hope that men will also begin to fight back by suing women who do this. And we adult women need to support them. How to handle Eternal Little Girls Let’s discuss what the grownups can do. Enforce the Currency of Consequences The Self-Esteem Generations will stop throwing tantrums if we hold them accountable for their unfair cancel efforts. Even if the target isn’t a saint. A man who gropes women on the subway isn’t a nice guy, but unless he’s forcibly pushing his penis into someone, he’s not the same as a rapist. Language matters: Eternal Little Girls and others of modern progressivism expand definitions when it suits them, and limits them when it doesn’t. We need to call out the ‘Graces’ of the world, and women like Megan Wachspress, and point out the facts as she’s stated them: It wasn’t grooming, it was a guy who hurt a legal adult, however regretfully. And shouldn’t she be over it by now? If more adults speak up and challenge the Eternal Little Girl, they’ll be less likely to act up in public. There’s nothing like consequences to teach children they’re responsible for their own emotional regulation. Starve the #MeToo Narcissism Economy Please don’t feed the narcissists. Don’t provide Eternal Little Girls their incessant craving for attention and validation via appropriated or exaggerated victimhood. Genuine trauma is one thing, but you can’t always be certain they’re not just pulling it out of their heinies. I keep the timeline, and proportionality, firmly in mind. A rape she says happened last week requires a lot more concern and support than one she says happened fifteen years ago. Raise Resilient Women, Not Fragile Victims Life is hard. Just ask the Buddha, who thought life was fun and games and beauty until he escaped the Palace prison and encountered old age, sickness and death. Challenge the parents who’ve been raising these coddled Eternal Little Girls. Point out she can’t defend herself against a potential sexual assault—every mother’s worst nightmare—when she thinks of herself as a victim. If more people called out laissez-faire parenting in public, they might get angry retorts back, but those parents may have a private conversation with Missy-poo later. Shaming works both ways. And as for the Eternal Little Girls, who have been raised to be emotional weaklings, we need to say No far more often, especially when they’re adults. Eternal Little Girls are taught to say No, but not to accept it. That must change. NO to exaggerated trauma. NO to assumed victimhood. NO to catastrophism. NO to treating other people poorly or ‘cancelling’. NO to not taking charge of their lives and their safety and most of all, their emotions. Tellingly, Wachspress told her story on Substack and prohibited commenting. I rest my case. Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? I lean left of center, but not so far my brains fall out. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter Grow Some Labia so you never miss a damn thing! There are also Substack and Spotify podcasts of more recent articles!

From One Tin Soldier to Charlie Daniels, a dual citizen's take on why the mother country will survive its latest midlife crisis. AI-generated image by Poe When I think of where the United States of America is headed today on its Semiquintennial, I am reminded of two songs that define us. The first is the 1970s folk song One Tin Soldier. You’ll only remember it if you’re Of A Certain Age. It was the theme song to the insanely popular 1971 movie Billy Jack—a movie that introduced one of America’s earliest examples of the modern action hero. Now the valley cried with anger “Mount your horses! Draw your sword!” And they killed the mountain-people So they won their just reward Now they stood beside the treasure On the mountain, dark and red Turned the stone and looked beneath it “Peace on Earth” was all it said Uber-folk-hippie music and all that. Okay. ‘Peace on Earth’ is totally cliche today. I get it. But, doesn’t it sound like America? Don’t negotiate with others for their resources, take their land. Destroy their country. And their people. Threaten to make everyone the 51st state. La plus ça change. But there’s a far more important song I’m reminded of, and it sounds even more relevant for America today: Listen to this song again even if you didn’t like it back in 1980. It sounds a lot different forty-six years later. “Well the eagle's been flyin' slow And the flag's been flyin' low And a lotta people sayin' that America's fixin' to fall Well speakin' just for me And some people from Tennessee We've got a thing or two to tell you all” I don’t know what will happen to my beloved mother country, and I do love it despite the way it’s acting right now, but I am quite sure about this: We will survive! (I will resist adding another video.) Here’s why: We survived an actual Civil War less than 100 years after the Founding Fathers flipped the middle finger to King George III, who pissed himself blue with rage, and declared independence from England. Civil wars ain’t funny, McGee Less than a century after the Revolution, the Civil War pitted brother against brother. Sometimes literally. Americans vs Americans over the right to own other human beings, or not. Don’t let the descendants of the sore losers tell you it was over ‘states’ rights’. It wasn’t. One side wanted uber-cheap labor, and the other, more Christian side, were willing to free them, but not marry them. Nobody alive today can fathom just what this meant for the long-ago severed Union. We make jokes or speculate about another ‘civil war’, but ‘it t’ain’t funny, McGee’, as my mother would have said. Civil wars are fucking brutal. You have no idea. All the South had to deal with was famine and Yankee rape. Just try living in the 21st century with that, plus your Internet, broadcasts, healthcare, gasoline, clean water and your food supply cut off. Remember that scene in Gone With The Wind where they have to cut off a man’s leg without anesthetic? That could be you, or your family member—your child. How will you get to the hospital without gas? What will they do for you without electricity? How will you like watching one child die of some common infection because the penicillin was long gone? Or your grandfather die because they ran out of his medication at Walgreen’s? “This lady may have stumbled But she ain’t never fell. And if the Russians haters don’t believe that They can all go straight to hell!” If you think I’m exaggerating about modern civil war risks, listen to a turkey-talkin’ Republican, Adam Kinzinger: So let’s please stop it with the civil war talk. Life may get far worse before it gets better, but I still believe, at the end of the day, much like the aftermath of World War II, America will stand tall, still. Although everyone will be picking a lot of debris out of their asses for years to come. I’m not convinced the ruins won’t be extensive, but I don’t think we’ll be devastated. I’m not sure if Xpocalypse will be from World War III or just plain dang stupidity and pigheadedness (I’m almost entirely certain it won’t be nuclear war), but I think a lot of Americans will die in the process. They already are, with their food aid cut off. Maybe famine. Maybe war. Massive inflation. Destroyed supply and logistics chains. Economic destruction, via the President’s inability to give a shit about Americans while he funnels money to himself, his family, and his rich friends (thank you, Grandma for sacrificing your SNAP, and R.I.P.!). Maybe it will be Civil War, Part Deux: Red vs Blue, rather than Blue vs Gray. That’s likely the worst-case scenario, unless I’m wrong about nuclear war. My money’s on self-inflicted economic devastation, but I beg my fellow Americans to prove me wrong. Because you’ll drag the rest of the world down with you. The cycle of pulling together I believe in my people, because we survived a real Civil War. We united again, and we got over whatever we needed to. Including the ‘inherent inferiority’ of other human beings, one of the most common and universally human moral faults. Here’s another reason why I believe we will survive today’s American national division. Our next big challenge, after the Civil War, was two World Wars, the latter of which being when we fought a guy so hideous his name still stands as the symbol of all things evil. The weird thing was, before that last war broke out, we all hated each other. Just like now. Yet eventually we pulled together by putting aside our differences. Once World War II ended—listen up, America haters!—everyone was pretty much sick to death of war so we rebuilt Europe, rebuilt Japan, built our highway infrastructure, passed civil rights legislation, funded the G.I.s to go back to school and learn new skills that didn’t involve killing people, eliminated smallpox, prevented polio, put men on the moon, launched massive social and civil rights campaigns for blacks, women, gays, migrant workers, and others, and, oh yeah, we had sex a lot leading to the Baby Boom. We will do it again. Even the sex. From the Bicentennial to the Border Patrol I was thirteen at America’s Bicentennial. My mother pointed out, like the thirteen original colonies. I was born on June 27th, one week before the Fourth of July. I pointed out that if she hadn’t been in such a hurry to have me that she’d had me induced, I might have been an Independence Baby. Mom pointed out I was already three weeks overdue and she was getting very, very tired of lugging that big load around, struggling to get in and out of her car. I was old enough to care about the Bicentennial. I was proud that I was alive when our country was celebrating its 200th anniversary and I loved our Bicentennial quarters and Minutes. I remember thinking ahead to the 250th in, what, 2026 and what that would be like. Never would I have dreamed, nor anyone I knew at the time, that I would be living in Canada, driven out partially by the slide towards authoritarianism under George Bush II, and that I would be afraid to cross my mother country’s border to celebrate the 250th there. Which I would have done otherwise. I’m not paranoid; I know what the law says: The border HAS to let me over, eventually, because I’m a U.S. citizen. But. An administration that acknowledges no commitment to our laws or our Constitutional rights. So sue us, bitch! While the chances are pretty slim, I can’t risk winding up in a foreign shithole prison or in whatever replaces Alligator Alcatraz. I’m disappointed I can’t be there with the rest of you, but I’m staying home. I can’t risk it. But a beer for me, kids. I’ll be back. I can ride out this crazy old coot and his clown car of MAGAts. And I do believe in you! “We’re gonna put her feet back On the path of righteousness and then God Bless America again!” - Charlie Daniels Band, 1980 Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? I lean left of center, but not so far my brains fall out. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter Grow Some Labia so you never miss a damn thing! There are also Substack and Spotify podcasts of more recent articles!

"GROW A PAIR" That's what we say to men when we think they're acting weak. "Grow some balls!" So what do we say when women are acting weak? We can't very well tell them to grow some balls. Women can't, of course! Women need to 'grow some labia'! They're the parts of the vagina that would have become the scrotum for the balls had she been born a male instead (and since she didn't, what would have been her balls are her ovaries). But I doubt you came here for a female anatomy lesson. It's time for us to grow some labia and woman up, show more strength, challenge ourselves more. Time to take more charge and responsibility for our lives, and spend less time blaming 'The Patriarchy' or systemic sexism. Those things exist, for sure, but at some point we've got to recognize the buck stops with the woman in the mirror and we need to claim our power (or reclaim it if we gave it away somehow!) So it's time for women everywhere to GROW SOME LABIA! I've written a few blog posts about how we can do exactly that and reclaim our power! Feminism The differences between victim feminism, which sees women as chronically aggrieved and victimized by men and 'The Patriarchy', and power feminism, which is more focused on one's self, achieving and claiming personal power and using it for the betterment of others. Dec 21, 2024 The Transfolk Who Really Do Need Our Support The experience of 'The Bearded Lesbian' reminds us some folks really do need to transition; and how LGBTQ can fail them I began following... Dec 5, 2024 American Feminists Don't Need A 4B Movement The South Korean feminism project will be dead in the water. Like it or not, we need men, and they need us. Maybe we just need to reform... Nov 24, 2024 Emma Watson, Emma Watson, Wherefore Art Thou, Emma Watson? The foxy fauxminist has gone missing in recent years. No movies. No fauxminist outbursts. Not even any trans love tweeted. I... Nov 17, 2024 Progressive Democrats Hate Women More Than The Right. Especially Feminists. Right-wing misogyny isn't How The Left Was Lost. It was women's, the primary administrators and executors of patriarchy and misogyny. The... Oct 12, 2024 A Frenchwoman Is Dead Serious About Holding ALL Her Rapists Accountable The Gisele Pelicot case highlights just how frighteningly high is the number of 'normal' men who have a penchant for, and might be... Sep 14, 2024 Let's Have A Grownup Talk About Privilege - With Curiosity Rather Than Outrage It's real. It's worth exploring even for the UnWoke. Its purpose is to open our own eyes rather than beat up others (and ourselves) over... Feminism Substack Subscribe to my FREE SUBSTACK NEWSLETTER for all my latest on power feminism, reclaiming your power, and the ongoing culture wars. Visit Substack >> Subscribe to my FREE SUBSTACK NEWSLETTER

WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE ABOUT POWER Big Girls Don't Blame The Patriarchy Explore The Blog LABIA POWER! About Me Grow Some Labia! is written by a liberal, feminist writer and social justice critic who teaches women and others how to reclaim their power and avoid partner abuse. She also candidly critiques far-left, progressive/woke/ social justice extremism. It's a place for people who lean left or right, but not so far their brains fall out. GSL's work can be found here and on Substack, Quora. And maybe a few other places. About Me The Latest From My Labia Power! Blog 5 days ago Daniel Penny: The Hero That Wasn't "He scared the living daylights out of everybody." The woke left damns Daniel Penny for trying to save others from a clearly disturbed... Jan 4 We Have To Think About Moderating X, Bluesky And Other Social Media The anoymous psychos who call for others' assassinations are a direct threat to democracy and public safety. Threats are NOT free speech.... Jan 1 Here Comes The 'Woke Right' And It Looks A Helluva Lot Like The Woke Left Brand-new management, same as the last! But the bipartisan UnWoke have the recent accumulated observation to help call out the... Dec 25, 2024 Roman Holiday - A Christmas Story Oh no! Not another Messiah! CC0 public domain Just what we need. Another bloody Messiah. The name’s Flatulous. I’m a Roman soldier in... Dec 21, 2024 The Transfolk Who Really Do Need Our Support The experience of 'The Bearded Lesbian' reminds us some folks really do need to transition; and how LGBTQ can fail them I began following... Dec 14, 2024 Is There Any Real Joy In Learning Anymore? Can students even experience learning something intriguing or unexpected? Or are they only told what to think? "Just kill me now!"... Explore The Blog DON'T BE THE VICTIM Take back your power. NOW. It started with abused women who didn't know they could say No to abuse. It morphed into taking back your power from political bullies and haters, including 'social justice warriors'. Don't Be The Victim GROW SOME LABIA "Grow a pair!" That's what we say to men when we think they're acting weak. "Grow some balls!" So what do we say when women are acting weak? We can't very well tell them to grow some balls. Women can't, of course! Women need to 'grow some labia'! Grow Some Labia I also take on the crazies from the right and the left. Subscribe to my FREE SUBSTACK NEWSLETTER

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