Author Archives: proprietor

Back when Elizabeth Warren was doing something useful, instead of being a Socialist pest, she wrote a book called The Two Income Trap. It was an investigation into how families ended up in bankruptcy. Warren found that families were not, for the most part, spending money haphazardly or wantonly, on silly luxuries. Rather, their fixedContinue reading “The Two-Income Trap”

You can wear nice clothes without being a sexpot all the time. Here are two Twitter feeds that look at classic fashion. One is B of Beauty (@bof_beauty). Actually, a lot of these are very sexy, but in a high-end sort of way. If you want to be a Trophy Wife, not a Side Chick,Continue reading “More Nice Girls”

Here is a picture for a collection of books by Eleanor Porter, including the famous Pollyanna. Don’t these seem like the most splendid girls? I wish girls would dress like this again. Since girls don’t have any money, this also depends on their mothers, to get them some nice clothes. Unfortunately, it is hard toContinue reading “Nice Girls”

One of the advantages of Courtship, or Courtship that involved “dating,” (that is, without sex), aka “Traditional Dating,” was that a man and a woman would spend a lot of time together, without having sex. They would find out if they enjoyed each other’s company. They would become friends first. Somewhere along the line, theyContinue reading “Dating Without Sex”

Recent TradBabe subcategory: Big Brain Helen Roy is a new mother.

While women struggle to figure out that 80% of the women can’t marry 20% of the men, men are doing this: Mate Selection for Modernity It concludes: This imbalance in the sexual marketplace is not a good thing. A society teeming with lonely women and sexually frustrated men is one hurtling toward disaster. It isContinue reading “Big Math”

When women go beyond 30 without children, they go crazy.

“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world,” it has been said. This is not quite so: but the “hand that rocks the cradle” does determine the world. It seems like the oddities of young people are rather irrelevant. Who cares if some 19-year-old dingbat has some kind of kooky opinion in college? ItContinue reading “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle”

In the interests of presenting good role models for girls and young women, I bring you Helen Roy. Of course she is a TradBabe. I don’t know if she is married, pregnant, or has children. I hope so. But, also, she is rather brainy, which is fine you know. Wouldn’t you Big Brain girls ratherContinue reading “Helen Roy”

Lori Alexander at The Transformed Wife gets an amazing amount of vitriol for what I consider the mildest conventional wisdom. My own mother exemplified all these principles. My wife (who is Japanese and learned English as a second language) also follows these general principles. But, it seems that a lot of American women out thereContinue reading “Behave Yourself”