UPDATE: Here are some better pictures, like I promised!

Well, Happy Halloween everyone! I’ve got a treat for you.

Here’s some pictures of my Halloween costume this year. Unfortunately, most of the pictures are with friends so they’ve been cropped. If I get some better ones, I’ll post those too, but for now, enjoy!

So, this morning I was doing my daily check in with my favorite blogs when I happened across Hot Air — specifically, Hot Air headlines. Today, a story was linked about how Alpha females can’t find lasting love because men are “intimidated” by successful women.

Could these women possibly be any more predictable?

They’d had a perfect evening. The wine and conversation had flowed easily and when Clare Connell gazed across the restaurant table at her new beau, a successful merchant banker, she couldn’t help wondering if he might be the one.

“It was then that he dropped his calamitous bombshell,” recalls Clare, 30, an ambitious and highly successful City management consultant who earns over £200,000 a year. “He said: ‘I don’t know why women bother having careers. My mother never worked.’ And just like that, I realised that he was sadly like many other Alpha males I meet. He didn’t want a partner who was his equal, he wanted a Beta female - someone who would pander to his ego and look up to him. In short, like many successful men, he didn’t want a confident business person like himself, but a woman who will stay at home and wash his socks.”

Needless to say, it sounded the death knell for that relationship.

Clare is not alone. According to Nicola Cairncross, a speaker on women’s finance and author of the book The Money Gym: The Ultimate Wealth Workout, the more successful a woman becomes, the harder she will find it is to meet the right man; and, she warns, the more likely it is that any relationship will founder.

Ms. Cairncross, who runs seminars aimed at helping successful women cope with their wealth, says: “Sadly, the clever, attractive Alpha woman who has set her sights on an Alpha man is likely to be very disappointed. Alpha men come home at night after a day of competing in the boardroom and the last thing they want is to compete with an assertive wife as well. He wants an easy life, someone to stroke his fevered brow, and that means marrying a feminine, girly Beta woman who doesn’t have the masculine competitive traits of her Alpha sister.”

Hearing women whine and complain that men don’t want successful women gets on my last nerve, especially the women like this Clare Connell. Guess what, Clare? People have bad luck in relationships sometimes. It will probably take you a long time before you find your Prince Charming — I had to kiss nothing but toads for five + years before I found mine.

Here’s the advice I have to these Alpha females. If you keep going on dates with attractive, successful, smart men who keep rejecting you, didja ever stop and think that, hm, maybe the problem is you?

No, no, no, no, in today’s politically correct, more enlightened world, if a man turns down a successful woman, it must be because he’s intimidated by her. It couldn’t possibly be because maybe she came on too strong, or seemed too needy. It couldn’t possibly be because maybe they just wanted different things out of life, or that maybe he just didn’t feel the spark. Nope, it’s gotta be because he’s intimidated by her success.

Because, you know, all Alpha men just want a woman who will lovingly do their laundry, cook and clean for them, pop out kids, and smile the entire time without ever offering a negative opinion. At least, in these women’s eyes, that’s how Alpha men are.

Take the situation offered. Alpha Male gives an opinion that is just shocking — shocking, I say, shocking! His mom never worked and he thinks it’s the best for a woman. Rather than showing some backbone and having a lively little debate with Alpha Male, or maybe giving him the chance to explain why he feels that way, Little Miss Alpha Female neatly puts him into the same box that she puts every other Alpha Male into without a second thought.

He thinks its best for women to stay home? He must hate all women! He can’t take it when a woman is successful! And all of this can be ascertained because Alpha Male has an opinion that Alpha Female disagrees with.

Gee, maybe I missed something, but I thought it was ok for people to disagree occasionally.

And what’s interesting is that these Alpha women don’t want Alpha men, either. They want the Beta male as they simultaneously castrate the Alpha male for wanting a Beta female. And really, what is so horribly wrong with that? OK, so this guy would like his wife to stay home. To modern-day feminists, that’s blasphemy. But really — what is so wrong with a man preferring for his wife to stay at home? We all have ideals for what we want our families to be. Unless some guy has advocated putting a doggie collar around your neck that will electrocute you if you leave the house, I don’t think most men have any intention of forcing their wives to stay home. I think most men are perfectly happy to let their wives do whatever they choose when it comes to working or otherwise.

I also have never (yes, never) met a single man who wanted a girlfriend or wife who would just smile and nod and do whatever he wanted. I have never encountered one of these men. I’ve never dated one, I’ve never been friends with one. From what I can tell, most men prefer a strong woman. Most men want a woman who isn’t an idiot, who has opinions, and who is his equal, whether she stays at home or works every day. What feminists cannot seem to wrap their minds around is that a stay-at-home mom isn’t a mindless drone. Maybe this guy that Clare Connell wrote off so easily grew up seeing his parents have a fantastic marriage, where his mother complemented his father. But no, he thinks a woman should stay at home, so he’s an evil, woman-hating jerk who is intimidated by a successful woman.

Another woman in this article whines that a boyfriend left her when her business took off, claiming that he said he resented the amount of time she was spending on her business. I’ll presume that as her business took off, it took up more and more of her time, giving her less and less time with her boyfriend. Could it be possible that maybe this guy simply wanted a girlfriend who would make him a priority, and not throw him on the back burner whenever work called? Gee, what a jerk.

The same woman said that several men have told her she is “scary” and “intimidating”. I usually find that people who come across as “scary” and “intimidating” seem that way because of how they present themselves. Maybe she oughtta take a look at her attitude and mannerisms so she doesn’t come across quite as “scary” and “intimidating”.

Of course, plenty of these enlightened women would probably castrate me for all of this. We shouldn’t have to change who we are, they’ll say. Your boyfriend probably keeps you down and hates women, they’ll say. You aren’t a strong woman, and that’s why you’re letting them off the hook, they’ll say.

No, no, and no. A big part of making relationships work is compromise, and if these women are completely unwilling to compromise any part of themselves, then no wonder men run away screaming. Only one woman in the article suggested that compromising could be the key to making a relationship work for these women. Compromising is not the same thing as pandering to a man’s ego, which is how these “strong”, “enlightened” women undoubtedly see it. And, for the record, my boyfriend does not keep me down or hate women, and he loves my career. He’s my biggest fan. (So there!)

My advice to these Alpha Females who can’t keep a man? Get off your high horse. Take your ego down a few notches. Cut Alpha Males some slack and actually give them a chance. Maybe let them see your softer side, rather than the confident, assertive side (it’s all about balance).

But hey, I’m just a chick who writes blogs for a living. I’m not a guy, and I can’t really say I know what a man wants. But I think the aforementioned advice will help these ladies out a lot.

For all you Alpha Males out there — how would you advise these women to finally be able to keep a man?

Apparently, I have a pretty good chance:

67%

I think I lost points on a few questions about whether or not I’d try to save my loved ones and/or the group I was with, or just leave them and save myself.

Could you survive?

Yesterday, Rachel Lucas wrote a great post called Girl Power about her observations of college students at a bar. She came away with three key points (caution for a teeny-tiny bit of language):

(1) It can be confidently asserted that it is, in fact, considered “stylish” and “hot” for young women to openly flaunt their doughy, protruding midsection regions and to dance like drunken strippers. Thank you, Britney and Paris. It seems the jellyroll exposure is necessary in order to display the tramp stamp lower-back tattoo that every. single. one. of. them. has.

(2) These same young women appear to have so thoroughly emasculated the males of their generation that there is now one AND ONLY ONE acceptable outfit for young men: horizontal-striped polo shirt with collar popped up, cargo shorts that hit midcalf ever-so-effeminately, and flip-flops or, alternatively, leather slip-on loafers. Hair must be moussed and gelled into either a giant spiky mess or a faux-hawk. Approximately 80% of the males sport multiple tattoos on arms and lower legs, clearly in a bid to simply keep up with the tattoo ratio the girls have achieved.

(3) Young females are every bit as, or more, disgusting, revolting, and downright nasty as their male counterparts. My sole foray into the “ladies” room (”ladies” - hehe - that’s a good one) afforded me the opportunity to breathe in the pungent odor of vomit; to hear one girl telling her cohorts, “I don’t want to go home OR puke! I want my drink back! Fuck off!” and another girl shouting into her cell phone, “She can eat shit! Gawd, what a whore!”; and to practice my cat-like tiptoeing skills as I navigated the floor which was littered with an almost solid layer of wet toilet paper and the shards from what were at least three broken glasses.

Ah, noble womanhood. We should definitely be running the world, as it is more clear now than ever that we have our shit together.

I will say that the fashion sense in Florida is [alarmingly] similar and different at the same time. A lot of Florida guys, for example, like to go for surfer chic instead of preppy chic. This means they wear ripped up cargo pants or board shorts, a t-shirt with one of the top three surfer brands (Billabong, Quicksilver, or Rip Curl), and flip flops, always. They top it off with this weird, messy hairdo that I can’t really describe. It’s long-ish, shaggy, and stylishly swept over their forehead and into their eyes, so that they can constantly be doing the girly hair flip.

She pretty much hit the female fashion sense on the head, though. I don’t go to bars or clubs much anymore, and when I do, there are hordes of these girls running around wearing next to nothing, showing off the pre-requisite belly button piercing most of them got when they were sixteen and yes, the tramp stamp.

Now, the tramp stamp I can’t really condemn. I have two tattoos, one of which is on my lower back. In my own defense, it has a very personal meaning to it, and I didn’t just slap a butterfly, a dolphin, a sun and/or a moon, or some kind of weird tribal there just for the sake of having a tattoo that I thought was “sexy”. Therefore, I don’t classify mine as a tramp stamp. I put it on my lower back because then it wouldn’t be seen by the entire world — it’s for me and no one else. It’s only seen when I want it to be seen.

But in any case, girls seem to lately pride themselves on being as “sexy”, “wild”, and “crazy” as they can be. They go to bars, cheering with their girlfriends about how they are going to get so f*cked up!, proceed to get drunk, and will do just about anything for a little attention. Dance like a stripper on top of a bar? No problem. Flash her little boobies for a free beer? Awesome. Make out with her best friend to get all the guys in the bar in a circle around them cheering? Great, now they know they’re getting laid tonight.

It’s like girls are in an unofficial race to keep up with the boys, to prove that they aren’t lightweights and can outdrink the guys, can sleep around just as much as guys can, can be just as loud, rude, obnoxious, and disgusting as guys can. It’s cool to talk in this breathy, ditzy little voice, to giggle at everything a guy says, and basically embody the blonde idiot stereotype as best you can. Strangely enough, slapping has come back, I guess. It’s “cute” for a girl to do the little girly slap whenever a guy says something funny. “Oh my God, shut up!”

These little girly girls will act all tough if they see some girl they don’t like, too, one of my favorite acts. They’ll spot them across the bar and talk all tough to their friends about how, “If that bitch says even one word to me I’m going to kick her ass!” She’ll then spend the rest of the night hoping that bitch will come over and say one word to her so that she can then prove what a tough bitch she is. They’ll get in each others faces, talk a lot of trash, and then get into some kind of catfight before they’re kicked out of the bar. The entire time, drunken boys will be cheering and no one will be trying to break the two girls up.

And feminists wonder why guys are so amazed and enthralled when they somehow meet a classy, intelligent, together young woman (I say “young” because most of these girls will grow out of this phase, but meeting a young twenty-something girl who doesn’t act like a drunken skank is more unusual than it is common).

I hate those girls. And if you go out to a bar or a club, they’re everywhere.

Thankfully, not all twenty-something girls are like that (hello!). The ones that aren’t are the ones who don’t feel the need to go to a bar and get plastered, and therefore, you won’t see them if you go looking at a bar for them. The old adage that you’ll never meet someone worth dating and/or marrying at a bar or a club is still true. It’s just too bad that classy, intelligent, together, attractive young women are more of a minority than a majority.

At any rate, these girls will go one of either two ways. They’ll grow out of it and be mortified at the way they once acted, and will go on to lead normal, healthy lives, probably keeping their daughters in a semi-prison to try to prevent them from acting the way that they did. OR, they’ll grow out of it in the sense that they stop going to bars every weekend but look back fondly on those memories, take their daughters to get matching tramp stamps in an effort to still be “cool”, and will probably never settle down with a good man.

And I also agree with another point of Rachel’s — the thanks can be put squarely onto the shoulders of Britney and Paris, for glorifying skankified stripper chic. Look at me, I dress like a whore, I’m so cool! Oh my gawsh, I made a sex tape, I’m so famous! Check it out, I party every single night!

I just hope that my [future] daughter’s generation does not repeat these same mistakes. I hope they grow up knowing how ridiculous it is to be “liberated” enough to act this way, and are able to show more restraint than these girls do. We don’t need a second generation of these Barbie Doll idiots.

The Anchoress created a house on this neat little website that tells you stuff about your personality based on a house you draw. Please do not be appalled by my horrible drawing — this is why I am a writer, not an artist. Those are little flowers lining the walkway, and a swing on the tree in my front yard. Oh, and the little box with the squiggles is supposed to be a garden.

You are sensitive and indecisive at times. You are a freedom lover and a strong person. You are shy and reserved. If you’ve drawn a cross on each of windows, you always want to live alone. You are very tidy person. There’s nothing wrong with that because you’re pretty popular among friends. Your life is always full of changes.

You will avoid being alone and seek the company of others whenever possible. You love excitement and create it wherever you go. You see the world as it is, not as you believe it should be.

You added a flower into your drawing. The flower signifies that you long for love. It also safe to say that others don’t see you as a flirt. You don’t think much about yourself.

You can draw a house yourself and add it to my street. We’ll all be neighbors! Or, you can just pop in and take a look around.

Have fun and happy drawing!

To my readers:

I have to take a temporary leave of absence due to a family emergency. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to do any blogging the past few days, but I should be back to blogging full-time by Wednesday.

Thanks for reading,
Cassy

We got a real-life Michael Myers on our hands!

A teenager was charged on Tuesday with killing and raping his sister and beating his niece with a sledgehammer in a crime the sheriff called one of the most brutal he’s ever seen.

Walter Smith Jr., 16, was charged with the first-degree murder and rape of his 22-year-old sister, Betsy Mary Smith, and aggravated assault against his two year-old niece, Andrea Costello.

Smith was charged after he recounted Monday morning’s events to Spotsylvania detectives, said Sheriff Howard Smith. Based on Walter Smith’s accounts, police said Betsy Smith was beaten with a sledgehammer and stabbed before being raped. When Costello began crying, she was struck in the head with a sledgehammer. Betsy Smith, Costello and a 1-year-old boy were then locked inside the room.

A detective found family members of the child, including Walter Smith, in the house, the sheriff said. The detective found the dead body of Betsy Smith inside the padlocked room.

The sheriff said the children were not found until one of them began crying on Monday afternoon and Betsy and Walter Smith’s mother, Mary Smith, told Walter to go check on them.

“Her face was messed up,” Mary Smith said of Costello, who was the child of another one of Mary Smith’s daughters. “I asked Andrea after I cleaned her face up what happened to her. She said she fell and bumped her head against the fuse box.”

Mary Smith said she does not believe Walter Smith killed his sister.

“He don’t remember nothing he did,” she said. “He was out of it or something like that. It was an accident. He don’t remember that stuff.”

Mary Smith said her son had no history of violence, but said he was on medication for depression.

Quick question for Mommy: if she was there Monday, how did she not notice anything unusual or out of the ordinary? How does it escape her attention that two babies are missing until one of them begins crying later that afternoon? Where was she when said psychopath was beating, raping, and stabbing his sister to death? And how on Earth can she defend him when he not only confessed, but told police what he did and how? Rather than making excuses for him, did she ever stop and wonder how it is her 16-year-old son was able to do something so horrible to his own sister and niece?

Liberals, of course, will be crying if this monster is put to death, because it’s “cruel and unusual”, which is likely to happen if he is found guilty, seeing as how he’s going to be tried as an adult. Personally, I’m with Chuck’s suggestion for how best to punish this guy:

As for him, “cruel and unusual” has a wide meaning. As he is familiar with beating others, he shall be beaten daily for twenty four days–one day for each year of his sister’s life, and one day for each year of his niece’s. Then he will be stabbed–twenty four times–by a trained “punisher” who can stab to inflict the greatest pain, but not kill. Following the stabbings, he shall be beaten with hammers–again, not to kill, but to injure. He shall be raped throughout his punishment, repeatedly by any other prisoner who wants him. He will be a human toilet for all the other refuse in the prison system.

Unusual and cruel? Certainly. But would such treatment be unusual or cruel to him?

Our justice system needs a new position: Punisher. Not simply a prison guard, the punisher is one who metes out appropriate punishment to those who’ve committed violent crime. It isn’t torture, as torture is meant to gain information or achieve some other goal. Punishment in this case is through pain and suffering. If you cause pain to someone else, you should suffer the same pain yourself, in the same manner. If that manner is not easily replicated, it is left up to the devices of the punisher’s own creativity to exact the level of pain. If the punisher causes more pain than the convict had through his crimes, we’ll underwrite his honest mistakes. One of the ritical ideas here is that now a criminal may think “Wow, I’m not just going to the gas chamber for this, I’m going to be skinned alive slowly and left in the sun for the ants and flies to eat while I slowly die” before he does whatever he is planning. Compared to a gas chamber, that is a MUCH more deterring thought. Also, they may not suffer the pain the exact same way, so they would have to consider the unknown, and not be able to prepare themselves for it or to otherwise “work the system.”

I never really understood how it was liberals could work themselves into a frenzy over how “cruel” lethal injection is, or how “horrible” the electric chair is. Here in Florida, our death row inmates get to live wonderfully, and on top of that, are treated to a fantastic final meal.

Take Danny Rolling, the notorious Gainesville serial killer. He liked to torture and rape his victims, but before he got started, he would tie them up and outline, in perfect detail, just exactly what was going to happen to them. He would mutilate their bodies, decapitate them, and all the while, the victims knew in clear certainty they weren’t going to survive:

What makes these murders even worse is that the victims were all systematically tortured — bound with duct tape, and before the rapes and murders were to commence, told them in vivid detail what he was going to do to them.

Imagine how they must have felt. Imagine yourself in their position — tied up, helpless to defend yourself, and knowing with complete certainty that you are going to be raped and murdered, and knowing with equal certainty that it is going to be in the worst way possible — brutally, grotesquely, and that death will not be coming slowly or painlessly.

He started his killing spree in 1990 and was finally executed in 2006 — sixteen long years to live after killing innocent college students. He was convicted using DNA evidence, and through 17 matches between a screwdriver in his possession and pry marks at the crime scene. He confessed to the murders to other inmates in prison, usually in vivid detail, and entered a three-page plea agreement. In 1994, he also plead guilty to a triple murder in Shreveport, LA, of a 23-year-old woman, her 55-year-old father, and her 8-year-old nephew. Before he died, his lawyer fought to keep him alive, claiming the chemicals used in lethal injection caused “extreme pain”. How did he spend his final hours? Eating an extravagant meal — of his choosing, by the way — of lobster tail, butterfly shrimp, a baked potato, iced tea, and strawberry cheesecake. He was then given the lethal injection and basically fell asleep forever.

That is what liberals deem cruel and unusual punishment, for a monster like Danny Rolling. And I’m sure that if this monster is put to death, they’ll cry some more about how horrible this kid’s death will be. They can never seem to shed the same number of tears for the victims though, strangely enough. They just don’t get as outraged about the brutal treatment of the victims as they do about the “cruel and unusual punishment” of lethal injection.

People like this kid, and Danny Rolling, and the BTK serial killer (and so on) deserve special treatment.

But, that will never happen. What likely will happen is that this monster will be found guilty, and hopefully he’ll get the death penalty. If he does, liberals will whine and moan and wail about how horrible and inhumane it is, somehow never thinking to whine and moan and wail about how horrible his crimes were. They’ll cry that he was taking medicine for depression, see, so it wasn’t his fault, and we should all just give him a break and let him sit in prison, living off of our taxpayer dollars. If he is put to death, it will probably be through lethal injection, and it probably won’t be until he’s sat in prison for twenty years or more.

Dontcha just love our justice system?

Hat Tip: Chuck’s Blog

The show was yesterday, and it was great. For those of you unable to listen in, you can go here to listen to the show. We talked about Duncan Hunter, the presidential race, and my article on men.

Thanks again to Silvio for having me!

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