“Because we are smashmouth incrementalists and not of a mind to share Jerusalem with the Jebusites, we must never forget that our final objective has to remain a total ban on all human abortion.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 80
Sexual Sanity
“Assume with all the cool kids that your grandparents’ sexual mores were infra dig (as the kids say today) and terminally unhip, and the end results will be dottier than a three-day convention of Dalmatian owners.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 78
RPM Running Hot
“The people running the world are fools. Now many of them, no doubt, did well on their GREs. The tachometer in their little red convertible of a brain can bounce nicely at the right side of the dial. But that does not change the fact that they are barreling down the wrong road late at night, a dark and stormy night actually, and the bridge right up ahead of them is out. Once they launch the whole red operation off the end of that collapsed bridge, the tachometer, such as it is, becomes largely irrelevant. One does not glance at it anymore. One has somehow lost interest.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 77-78
The Absurdity Horizon
“We have now advanced well past the absurdity horizon, the point past which no recovery is possible without resorting to the forces of dark bigotry and reaction.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 75
Outlawing Good Men
“A return to sanity will be a return to an unapologetic acceptance of the fact that men are of necessity going to be dominant. They only choice we have as a society is between whether the dominance is going to be constructive or destructive. Because the poobahs in charge have spent the last generation or so outlawing every form of constructive male dominance they can identify, we are now discovering that—far from empowering women—they have actually empowered destructive male dominance. Put another way, when constructive male dominance is outlawed, only outlaws will have male dominance.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 72-73
Men Guarding Against Men
“Women really do need to be protected and guarded from men. They need this because there really is a thing called toxic masculinity. But the only ones who are capable of protecting women from men are the men. The only thing capable of protecting women from toxic masculinity is masculinity.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 72
The Real Toxicity
“When you are trying to describe bio-males competing against women in women’s sports, that elusive phrase you are looking for is #ToxicMasculinity.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 70
Their Long Game
“Once they have the law in place, they will grant your reductio—on the age of consent, on polygamy, and on the bisexual thing. On everything. The terminus is sexual anarchy.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 67
We Are Not the Same
“A Christian civil order will grant them liberties that they have no intention of granting to us.”
Take It to the Limit
“Under the new tyranny of the raw act of choosing, nothing would prevent two people from marrying, one in Massachusetts and one in Washington, whose one thing they share ‘in common’ is the fact that they have never met each other, never want to, and are resolved never to exchange any email whatsoever.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 62