Was Cecilia Payne too clever to be remembered??????????????

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) was born into a very gifted English family of science, law and music. She herself became an astronomer and astrophysicist who ought to have been famous in her own time for her ground-breaking doctoral thesis in 1925. However, her ideas about stars consisting of helium and hydrogen were not in favor at the time and even when it was proved that she was right, somehow she and her name were forgotten. 

Her work on the nature of variable stars was foundational to the astrophysics of today. After studies at Cambridge she was met with a SILLY problem: Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948. When hearing or reading about something like that one can't help thinking about one very common question in feminism: Why are there not as many female scientists, authors, musicians, etc., etc. as male ones? Well, well, think of someone like Cecilia Payne and answer that question yourself ....

All through her years of studies she had to fight hard for the grants that came natural to her male fellow students. It's interesting how her life story sort of illustrates the modern feminist accusations of misogyny and discrimination in society and in the world of e.g. science ....

https://araniea.com/a-98-year-old-kentucky-woman-with.../

 

https://physicsworld.com/a/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-the-woman-who-found-hydrogen-in-the-stars/ 

 

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The Royal Bride Who Was A Child

 

Richard II of England was considered a handsome man, although some found his face a tad too "feminine". Others, like e.g. William Shakespeare, couldn't care less as all they saw was a man with some exalted ideas about the rights of a king which made him turn into a tyrant who had to be disposed of. According to historical documents he really loved his first wife, Anne of Bohemia, although they didn't have an heir which are seen as the cement of any royal lines. Historical reports say that he grieved deeply when Anne died, but two years later he married a French princess, the daughter of King Charles VI, Isabella of Valois. This marriage was more or less based on political reasons and it was never consummated which was due to one fact: She was only 6 years old when she married the 29 year old widower, Richard II.

It has been said that he treated her more like a daughter than a wife which of course makes the marriage less offensive to modern, Western people. Most non-Muslims take offense at the marriage of the Prophet Muhammad and the 6 years old Aisha and the consummating when she was c. 8-10 years old, but as can be seen in the case of e.g. Richard II and Isabella there also were VERY young brides in the world of the Christians.

Queen Isabella was considered very pretty indeed

As the legend has it the marriage was/may never have been consummated which saved the young woman from the fate of the Tudor matriarch, Margaret Beaufort. When she was one year old she was married off to John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk. Later on she herself did not recognize this marriage which was dissolved some time later. Then she was married off to Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, still at a very young age, and C. 12 years old she had a son, Henry (born in 1457), who became the first Tudor king as Henry VII. 

Henry VII

Before the birth of her son she became a widow, but in her later marriage she had no children. It has been suggested that the reason for this is that she suffered some irreparable damages to her uterus by giving birth as such a tender age. However, as the mother of the king she obtained and kept a genuine power position at the court, even dominating the queen of her son, Elizabeth of York,the mother of Henry VII.

As we know the life of women and even royal ladies were dangerous because of childbirth. Both Elizabeth and Margaret survived, but what about the widow of Richard II, Isabella of Valois? Well, she married her 11 years old cousin, Charles, Duke of Orleans, in 1406 when she herself was 16. A couple of years later she died in childbirth ....

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-II-king-of-England/Tyranny-and-fall 

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Lady-Margaret-Beaufort/ 

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Lying As A Life Style

 

There most likely are many more than Casey Anthony who have been convicted of lying and serving time (from July 5 to July 17 2011) as a liar after being aquitted for murdering her 2 years old daughter, Caylee Anthony. All over the world people were convinced that she had killed her daughter to free herself from the burden of parenthood, and that she was an awful person altogether, shallow and mean. Before the trial she had sent the police, investigating her daughter's disappearance, out on several wrong tracks, one of them was an utterly false accusation of a woman whom she named as the nanny who stole her child. Also she told them that she herself had a job in a job place where they hadn't even heard of her. Another presumably false track was her father's alleged rape of her when she was a child. All in all she comes out as a LIAR, and many still believe that she also is a child murderer who got away with her crime.

Did she, or didn't she??? She was aquitted except for lying so that's what we know she did. As to the murder, your guesses are as good as mine. 

We also know that pathological lying - and that's what we seem to have here - isn't an illness like other illnesses, but still, most of us feel it's impossible not to see an incarnate liar as ill. They tend to have a borderline personality disorder (BPD), a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) as well as an antisocial personality disorder (APD), and they come out as sick in the meaning of "crazy" in a general manner. 

 

Portrait made by Al and me

Liars may be charming and pleasant to be with. They often come out as full of good ideas, although these may lack substance. This lack of substance turns many of these good ideas into the opposite: BAD IDEAS. Many politicians feel a right to "bend the truth" and they don't even see this as lies. To them it's politics, and something "everybody does". Some even use lies as a non-masked tactic like e.g. Goebbels who (maybe falsely) has been quoted for advocating the so-called "big lie": "“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”" Did he say this? I've seen arguments both for the truth of this quote and the opposite ....

Portrait made by Al and me

The 45th President of USA is a well-known liar. So are several other presidents in the succession line of America, and somehow people know this, but without wanting the heads of those "dissidents". This time it's different, even though Trump has his supporters and fans - his entourage, so to speak - because the lies are so blatant that they cannot be denied. Some of these lies just seem silly, like e.g. the ones about his weight: 6-foot-3, 215 pounds. No way that is true, and we know it. Now it has turned into a laughing matter: How could he think that we would believe such a blatant lie by a man whom we know is a super narcissist??? Well, the thing with this particular man is that he himself believes in his lies. Somehow they become the truth by being uttered by him, although they are not. Where the Goebbels quote signals a conscious strategy then the Trump approach to the truth as such reveals a general lack of knowledge. That doesn't only go for health issues as e.g. Covid which he suggested cured by very, very weird "medicines" but everything. His sky-high arrogance makes him stick to what he himself said no matter what and that's always a problem .... 

Portrait by Al and me

https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/casey-anthony-makes-bombshell-claims-daughter-death-peacock-series-rcna59108

 

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/is-it-illegal-to-lie-to-the-police/ 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/03/casey-anthony-docuseries-peacock 

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/casey-anthony-trial-psychiatric-clues-accused-child-killer/story?id=13881355

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/president-donald-trump 

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/ 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/ 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump 

 

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot 

 

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The AMAZON-Swamp

 

When I had my interesting experience with a scammer trying to steal my AuthorHouse-book "The Naughty Peteyboy, Sonya, And The Magic Word", presumably to turn it into a movie, I decided to republish it. I have some of my published books on Amazon, but the newer ones are in Danish, published by Danish publishers, and "Peteyboy" is in English. After thinking it over I decided to republish "The Naughty Peteyboy, Sonya, And The Magic Word" as a KDP-book on Amazon. It should be safe, but doing so I opened my bank account for royalties. I know that the book has sold as I know some of those who bought it, but I don't see royalties on the account and that I find very weird. Well, be that what it is, as that was the preclude to something even weirder: I found illicit withdrawals from Amazon on my banking account ....

Me, being ME, doesn't like to be robbed, but when I made a protest to Amazon, it sort of got lost in their labyrinthine "helping system" which seems to be as fraudulent as can be: I was sent forth and back between non-relevant "help"-pages. However, I did get their attention when I talked to my bank about these illicit withdrawals, because they started to investigate Amazon and not only blocked my account, but deleted it which was what I asked for. Right now Amazon is sending me more emails with ridiculous and non-essential references to their presumed, but fake "helping" pages. Now why do they do that, is it to get some help with the fraud? No, it's to give them the name and number of my new banking account. 

I've found several internet references to this kind of Amazon scams. One of the most interesting ones is on Reddit, but it has been muted. How come, and who did that????? 

 

https://twitter.com/cedar3ec/status/1704418135783133375 

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Amazon-taking-money-from-my-bank-account-when-I-dont-have-an-Amazon-account-For-more-context-someone-has-set-up-a-prime-account-using-my-card-details-yet-Amazon-wont-let-me-cancel-it-as-I-dont-have-the

 

Etc., etc., etc. ....

 

Men Going Their Own Way: MGTOWs

The newest - as far as I know - in male ideologies is the MGTOW movement. MGTOW stands for "Men going their own way". It's opposed to feminism and something they call "Gynocentric laws" which they think always favor women. Also there is an aspect to this, i.e. the male FREEDOM that men have taken for granted, married or not. These day, women having found ways to secure their social situation through laws that don't rob them of freedom, status, money, etc. when divorcing or living alone, men feel that the male freedom seems to be assailed so they think that MGTOW will help them regaining the power of situations they all of a sudden can't control.

Reading pitiful complaints of Incels all over the internet it's obvious that many men of the younger generations feel cheated out of something they were brought up to believe was founded on NATURE. They seem to think that this mysterious "nature" was the 1950'iesk relationship of daddy being the bread winner and thus the king the hill in the family whereas mommy who was staying at home, preparing dinner for her husband and their kids, was part of his general accommodations. This "mommy type" woman always allowed her husband to have sex whenever he felt like it without "talking of clitoris, etc.". Being beset by the 1950-ideologies of clear-set gender roles in the perfect relationships even modern male ideologies seem to have room for the want of female orgasms. - When I saw an internet discussion (as far as i remember on Reddit) about whether women pee through their clitoris I knew that even today many men don't take the information about women they, by now, have been offered for 3-5 generations: They simply don't want to relate to anything but themselves and their own needs which they see as "natural" or even "God-given".

The loving slave is brought home

 

What they see as "natural" is patriarchy which they think goes back into the first days of humanity. The anthropological studies of recent years have proved that assumption to be false. There are several ideas about the history of the institution of patriarchy, especially when it comes to the time table, and it actually is very interesting to follow this tracking of a historic fact that subjected the female of humanity. "Several researchers have stated that the first evidence of patriarchal structures, signs of a sexual division of labor, dates from around 2 million years ago, deep within humanity's evolutionary past. Other anthropological, archaeological and evolutionary psychological evidence suggests that most prehistoric societies were relatively egalitarian, and suggests that patriarchal social structures did not develop until after the end of the Pleistocene epoch, following social and technological developments such as agriculture and domestication." (Wikipedia)

 

The male view of the development of human life

 

As to the MGTOWs they will have nothing to do with women - or so they say - but I frear they will turn up as pedophiles, serial killers of women or inmates of psychiatric wards. Why do I think something like that about the male gender when no man on this planet came from anything but a female uterus? My reason for thinking that way is that that's what patriarchy has abounded with for generations: "Women are toys, they don't feel a thing when we rape, kill and dismember them." Well, for your information, women are not toys and neither are children or animals.

 

These entusiastic MGTOWs who feel they "found the road to happiness" should remember one thing: Change the "M" into a "W" and you have another situation which has become en option for women that may be the future choice of many more ....

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802108

 

https://bartsmithworld.com/mgtow-by-bart-smith

 

https://medium.com/@garyk/one-mans-perspective-on-dating-relationships-and-mgtow-5e581427fe7a

 

https://medium.com/the-creative-project/why-marriage-was-a-great-deal-for-men-in-the-1950s-ce84e47e2b2b

 

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Body Odors - Likes and Dislikes ....

 

One thing is ruined clothes, but when it comes to cleanliness there are other, and i some ways, more important issues: Body Odor. That's the not-to-speak-of-but-serious problem in the lives of many people. Sweat doesn't in itself be stinky, but when we talk of BO, as is the "nickname" of Body Odor, that's most often what we are thinking of. 

Sweat may be the main problem to some, but others suffer from other complaints, like e.g. teeth and a mouth that's not as free of smells as they - and others - may wish. The very thought of one having this problem without knowing it may have killed off many good flirts which is a pity. 

Well, not only women may have this problem, but being "the beautiful gender", i.e. the one which is supposed to do whatever is possible to represent the beauty ideals of women in a patriarchy, they have to fight this (and other) odors at all costs: Do NOT have smelly armpits, mouths or vaginas, girls, as all kinds of odors are considered "unfeminine". According to the patriarchal ideals you're supposed to be eager to attract men and BO will make them shun you. Somehow BO is not as offensive as it's part of the mystique of masculinity. 

Well, "of course" (!!!!) a toothpaste that smells of whiskey is the thing for men who want to signal masculinity!!!! The male mystique includes sweat and alcohol, at least to some extent. Both of these are seen as come-ons that women should love if they were what's called "real women". 

Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001

The meeting of these three people led to a very lucrative settlement of damages for one of them: Virginia Roberts. The others, Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell, "forgot" everything about it, and in an interview the prince was more upset at being called "smelly" by Virginia Roberts than being accused of having abused her, who was a minor at that time. He obviously was shocked to the very core of his being, yes wounded in his masculinity, and did everything in his might to explain why he might have been sweaty. However, the medical condition he was referring to, didn't fit - also it's a bit strange that he gives such information when, at the same time, he claims that he never met Virginia Roberts or have had sex with her.  

However, there is "smelly" and "stinky", one may come from bodily achievements, like e.g. in sports, and the other may stem from medical conditions or bad hygiene. Problems of a medical art will most likely be treated as well as possible, but as to the bad hygiene, we are left with a few - actually only one!!! - possibility/possibilities: Clean yourself! That's a wonderful situation for people who make a living by producing soaps, detergents, etc.: They just have to hint at the possibility that someone suffer from BO to get the attention of all presumptive buyers who will rush to the stores to buy these miracle products, no matter what. 

OK, I can relate and don't blame this guy for sort of forgetting what he has become for his dreamy recollections of what he was, or at least saw himself as having been at one early stage of his life. The problem is that mirrors don't decide our value on "the market" where the eyes and noses of other people have a say ....

I've seen derogatory comments on "the smell of women" from incels who may never have had a sexual experience with a real woman, i.e. one they have not dreamed up in some weird/pornographic fantasies. That's what sexual frustrations may lead to, but will this contempt for the female make these guys change their own smelly underwear? Naaahhh, for men "don't smell", and "the penis is clean as a finger". Not so, as e.g. the smegma of the male member is a real stinker: It's not natural, male fluids, but dirt. On the other hand, as the actress Gwyneth Paltrow has proven, there may be a market for the female fragrance. 

 

    
 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/17865-body-odor

https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/gwyneth-paltrow-tastes-her-vagina-candle-in-super-bowl-commercial/  

https://www.scandidact.dk/sundhed/simulated-odors-urine

 

https://www.newidea.com.au/prince-andrew-sweat-jeffrey-epstein-interview 

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Unwanted children

 

Looking like a child, but old enough to give birth: Jakayla Ashanti Williams (18 years old) had a baby she didn't want. What's very tragic is that she knew she had one way out of the situation, i.e. to dump the newborn at the hospital. It's obvious that she knew this, but chose otherwise, as she told her family that the child was at Southeast Health Medical Center, but at that time she had let it die in a trash compactor. 

Baby killers have always been around, so what she did wasn't anything new, and that even makes it sadder: We should know that women giving birth may not have made a conscious choice, but only let things happen not to e.g. disappoint their family who knows of the pregnancy. Something which I think was what led to a former, infamous case:

So she wanted to go on with her life and not give up all the fun for the tough maternal obligations? Thinking of it, reading about it, etc. is hard to those who would never as much as consider something like it, no matter what. Most of us have been brought up to believe in - and trust - the old myth of the mother who will toil with three jobs or even more to support her family and even risk her own life to save her children, but as we know, myths are MYTHs which is something that may be far from the truth. 

Chris Watts with his family, two daughters and his pregnant wife, which he murdered to be free, also to be with a new girlfriend. Other men have murdered their pregnant wives or girlfriends as they have had no intentions of establishing a commitment, either as a father, a husband or by accepting to have to pay the costly child support of having children out of wedlock. In this case the man stalled at the thought of having a third child which he hadn't wanted in the first place ....

Everyone who hears about the Casey Anthony case has an opinion about her acquittal of the more than suspicious death of her daughter, Caylee. It's my impression that most people don't support this verdict, and her image of a lying, even scheming woman who loved her party life, but not her obligations of motherhood. She appears to be an extremely cold hearted and overtly superficial woman and that makes people take for granted that she is guilty of murder. Well, I for one, was very surprised that she was acquitted, but the evidence was not enough to another verdict. Thinking about it I also come to ponder one fact: She was sort of forced into NOT having an abortion by her mother. This woman, who was the one who called the cops on her daughter, even seemed happy to become a granny of the child of the unmarried Casey.

If Casey Anthony told her mother that she chose her hanging out with friends and lovers, her freedom over the child she didn't want then that's a message that should have stopped all attempts of forcing her into going through with the pregnancy. We may find Casey superficial, a low life with money, and in all ways awful, but still, she has a right to make a choice. If she was forced into giving birth that was very unfortunate as it cost the life of her lovely daughter.

 

https://www.crimeonline.com/2023/08/25/teen-mom-dumps-newborn-in-trash-compactor/

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