A Woman Sui Generis

Long long ago on FreeRepublic.com there was a poster of incredible energy, verve, and literary style. She could piercingly and entertainingly eviscerate so much modern cant that she became a must-read poster for me. She loved "shocking the bourgeois," but she did so not as a leftist progress-monger but as a trad-con "old republican" weary of the continuing destruction of her culture and country. Here she is on modern feminism:

The hyena is a matriarchal creature. Hyenas hunt in packs consisting solely of females. The hierarchy is determined by confrontations between large agressive females. Although the pack is a highly efficient scavenging force it practices continual adversarial power struggles. Sometimes alliances are made and a contesting female is attacked by the group while sleeping or eating. Hyenas are ruthless and fierce but rarely confront a healthy, male adult adversary; preferring, like many scavenger/predators, the unprotected young and lactating females. They also eat the young of their own pack females who exist in the lower eschelons of the heirarchy.

Male hyenas are solitary creatures; markedly smaller than the females; more timid, they subsist on leftovers from the female pack's carrion. They come in contact with females briefly during mating season and are then driven out of the pack--sometimes even killed and eaten by the pregnant females. Young male hyenas are often culled early and few survive. They too become a meal for the hyena sisterhood.

The only creature in the jungle the hyena pack fears is the adult male lion. The lion and the hyena are mortal enemies. The only time lionesses--who are formidable predators themselves--require the intervention of adult male lions is when they are confronting a pack of hyenas in defense of their young.

She was one of those conservatives who had actually read Marx, and so acquired a suspicion of capitalism. She summarised Das Kapital as one long love poem to capital, and took the extreme position that the Cold War was simply a fight between two groups of pirates for the rights of plunder. The bombing of Serbia was ever-present in her memory, and she hit hard at our post-9/11 appeasement of Islam. You'll remember that the Clinton administration had no qualms about bombing Serbians on their Easter, while the Bush administration was terribly squeamish about attacking during Ramadan. She believed that her civilization was not invited to Huntington's Clash. Though I flinch from accepting such an idea wholeheartedly, there is something to that.

She went by the moniker LaBelleDameSansMerci, and after being banned from FreeRepublic for viciously attacking the planned Iraqi invasion she moved on to the unmoderated LibertyForum where she took the nom-de-plume of Pariahville. She has not posted for over a year, hopefully because her time is occupied by better things. But some of her admirers have begun this tribute thread well-worth reading.