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Left. Boy, did Tibet disappear in the 21st Century

Patty (Hearst) was rather less detached from the activist agenda of the time than she subsequently claimed. Jack Scott, a radical journalist who was close to the SLA's core leadership and became the group's unofficial historian, alleged, shortly before his death in 2001, that Ms Hearst had made contact with the SLA, and effectively arranged her own kidnapping. Lake Headley, a private investigator hired by the families of two other SLA members, further claimed that a year before the kidnapping she had visited a radical black convict, Donald DeFreeze, who later became the SLA's figurehead. Bill Harris, the only surviving member of the kidnap gang, says that Patty's embrace of the group was entirely voluntary and that he and some other SLA members actually opposed it.

Truck looks great. Anybody know who the old broad is? Any guesses?

Who is it?

Jennifer Love Hewitt? WTF. I need a paper bag rebreather.

What is to be done?
Here is a short list of ideas suggested by this analysis of the Baby Boom. Many of them are compatible with liberal principles, and could be pursued democratically.

Roll back the welfare and pension state and lower income taxes. The transfer of hundreds of billions of dollars a year (in the US) from men to women artificially harms men’s relative economic status, which in turn harms marriage prospects.

Roll back the regulatory state. Women tend to be overrepresented both in government jobs like teaching and in jobs created by government regulation like HR, which artificially inflates their wages relative to their market value.

End Affirmative Action for women and ban (or de facto ban, as similar lobbying organizations for men are) the thousands of organizations, scholarships, and programs that exist to promote women’s career success (particularly in the best compensated and highest status jobs) at the expense of men.

Defund education. Women outperforming men in education seems to be a universal feature of the modern world. This high performance is not matched by corresponding real-world success, meaning that girls are relatively better at school than they are at learning or applying that knowledge. There may be ways of eliminating or reversing this pro-female bias in the school system, but I’m not aware of any successful attempts. But that doesn’t mean nothing can be done. The signaling model of education (see Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education) implies that education is mostly (~80%) a zero sum game, meaning that reducing it across the board would be a social benefit. Defunding higher education entirely would reduce education across the board, making it less attractive and important for both men and women.

Pronatalist monetary incentives should be targeted at married husbands, rather than mothers. If it must be done in a sex-neutral way, then do it in the form of income tax breaks, as married men make the most money and pay the most income taxes. Almost all actually existing incentive programs reverse this, thus reducing women’s incentives to marry.

Roll back the Sexual Revolution. This is easier said than done, and can’t be done through legislation alone9. It would look like once again stigmatizing extramarital sex, ending no-fault divorce, encouraging young marriage as the default life path, and generally making the married nuclear family the normative unit of society again.

Sassy: Opinionated Boor

Sophisticated: High Maintenance

Solvent: Middle Aged Person expecting others to be impressed they can cover their own basic bills.

I presume these ladies have grown kids, or nearly grown kids.

I don't know what this is.

I'm going with "Post-menopausal Polish Feminist West Side Story"

Patrick says

She is legally correct if conception occurred during marriage.

Not true, except in France. In this country, you don't have to sign the birth certificate. That is the first and last time you can deny responsibility. Any support you give the woman after that is "proof" that you consider the child yours. Ask for a DNA test before signing, and see how shit goes down.