Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.
Dust jacket notes: “The Bride Stripped Bare is a study of thirteen twentieth-century artists, and of the erotic and affective sensibilities expressed in their work. Matisse’s odalisques and Picasso’s demoiselles, Bonnard’s bathers, Balthus’s Lolitas and de Kooning’s harpies all appear in this provocative and original book, as do the nudes of Maillol, Schiele, Modigliani, Pascin, Lachaise, Stanley Spencer, Lucian Freud, and Philip Pearlstein.
“Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society.
“This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood why. The truth is that she didn’t want to lie.
“Jessica couldn’t be authentic with her readers if she wasn’t fully honest with herself first.
Our friend, Abigail Shrier, was scheduled to be the featured speaker at the 2020 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture. Unfortunately, the Chinese-Wuhan Virus forced us to cancel the annual event. But as soon as we can reschedule, Abigail is standing by as our speaker.
Abigail writes Op-Ed pieces for the Wall Street Journal which are notable for their ability to cut through the vapor of lies and misinformation that passes for elite culture and drill down to foundational truths.
For the past year or so Abigail has been writing and researching her book about the transgender movement, sweeping like prairie fire, through the world of adolescent girls. This new social gospel is spread through social media and preached by radical leftist activists in the public school systems, men and women who seek to erase biology, male and female, and destroy the nuclear family.
I urge everyone to read Abigail’s book. And if you have children in the public school system in California, be warned, your children are being indoctrinated by fanatic radicals cleverly using the smoke screen of anti-bullying programs for their destructive secular religion.
From the publisher:
Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.
But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.”
Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.
Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.
Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.
A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.
Order here.
The watch is a Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso, designed in 1931, an Art Deco masterpiece.