Thread by @ArtfulPrudence

It's so tragic: I see beautiful women, delicate by nature, kindly and gentle, feel cast down because they don't fit the degeneracy of the time, and then pervert themselves to be accepted by the perverted. Beauty and ignorance can't possibly mingle together.

These gracious women are angelic and pure, but they are neither certain nor integral. The corollary is that they easily fall prey to the herd morality, end up compromising their own virtue for another's vice, and sadly, secrete their merit to avoid loneliness

The feminine is ever more gracious because it is vulnerable, but that vulnerability is dangerous when it is not tempered by integrity, because it easily yields, and by its naivety, is easily deceived by displays of vice disguised as virtue. It's a trap.

Is it not queer when the deceiver is deceived by its own unworldly innocence? That's what happens when, heedless in her judgement, a woman mistakes the sickness of the herd for the progressive liberation of women and further, believing that to be just.

What she sees is not the unhealthy sickliness of the open-minded, but the compelling allure of a new-found freedom, which gives her a fervent hope, a possible salvation. Uncomfortable in her solitude, she finds comfort in fettering herself to flawed ideology

The most catastrophic of all is when a woman feels bad for being feminine because she isn't sure of it, and those who know nothing of it, try and tell her how they know everything about it, and she, being unprobingly submissive, believes them. It's not just.

One thing's worse than being ignorant, and that's being sincerely good in an insincerely bad world and not being conscious of it. To me, that seems like a severe tragedy; misspent potential, crippled beauty. It's unfortunate that even grace is marred by doubt

One could believe fools because they are filled with blind confidence, or disbelieve them because, well, they're fools. But women crave to belong, they dread the loneliness of being outcasted – only the firmest men revel in that by their self-possession.

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