ON LOW-STATUS AND MASCULINE DEFIANCE

This passage is excerpted from Andy Nowicki's Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 4: On Being Unloved, which will be published soon.)

In a previous volume of this ongoing work, I spoke of the state of being unwanted. In this volume, I have selected to meditate upon the state of being unloved.

AN ULTIMATE SOLUTION TO THE INCEL PROBLEM

This passage is excerpted from Andy Nowicki's Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 4: On Being Unloved, which will be published soon.)

The Toronto van massacre undertaken by an apparent “incel” in April first thrust the formerly reclusive “involuntary celibate” subculture into the national spotlight. A month later, when some sources claimed that the SanteFe school shooter also had apparent incel-esque motivations, this already much-maligned demographic was subjected to yet another round of hostile scrutiny from a vindictive and dishonest media establishment.

THE PORN GULAG: "PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW"

The following passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's collection of essays, Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are also available for purchase.

A lesser-known film than "The Graduate," but one which charts roughly the same thematic course, albeit in a rather more openly sleazy manner, is Roger Vadim’s 1971 movie “Pretty Maids All In a Row.” 

'STOCKHOLM SYNDROME' AND THE LOW-STATUS LIBIDO

This passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's recently-published Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted, now available on Kindle and in paperback

From the very start, the low-status male’s sex drive is a source of endless misfortune, even of calamity. Despite this indisputable fact, he still adheres to the demands of his libido and husbands it quite unthriftily, in a particularly egregious instance of “Stockholm syndrome.” He cannot fathom the notion of denying himself sex, even though, should he level with himself for a mere moment, he would be forced to admit that his concupiscence (or “thirst,” in today’s parlance) is his downfall.

AGENTS OF CINEMATIC DEGRADATION: THE 80S 'TEEN SEX COMEDY'

This passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's newly-published Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted, now available on Kindle and in paperback)

What we must understand, again, is the degree to which efforts are being made to pervert and undermine us, to turn us against our very own souls, to convince us happily to consume one poison pill after another.

DON'T BE A 'SAD SACK': LOW-STATUS MAN'S FALL FROM GRACE

This passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's newly-published Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted, now available on Kindle and in paperback)

                                                                                            

Every man wants to be wanted.

Unfortunately, desire is not an infinite or even an abundant trait; therefore, some men must needs go unwanted. That is to say, their desire to be desired must needs go unmet.

What truly weeds out the wheat from the chaff, or the men from the boys, is how a man responds to being unwanted.

THE STRANGE CASE OF 'PSEUDO ROMEO'

This passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's newly-published Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted, now available on Kindle and in paperback.

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There is a certain boy I remember from my youth. 

As an adolescent, he was a slight, gawky lad with a wide mouth and incongruously beady eyes.  Unfortunate-looking though he was, he wasn’t of a resentful frame of mind; nothing in him seemed inclined towards viewing life in such a light; instead, quite oblivious to his miserable social state, or in any case utterly unmindful thereof, he relentlessly projected an attitude of thoroughgoing optimism; what was more, he was an inveterate and rather pesky romantic, much  after the fashion of Looney Toons mainstay “Pepe Le Pew.” 

RUMINATIONS OF A LOW-STATUS MALE, VOLUME 3

The latest edition of Andy Nowicki's ongoing series of literary reflections, Ruminations of a Low Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted, may now be purchased on Kindle.

It will soon be available for purchase in paperback form as well.

CELIBACY AND CIVILIZATION

The passage below is taken from Andy Nowicki’s collection Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 2, now available for purchase (along with Volume 1) in paperback and on Kindle. 

 by Andy Nowicki

Within Catholicism, institutional celibacy has retained a place of high regard.

Monks and nuns take oaths to enter into Holy Matrimony, the former choosing to marry the Church, the latter opting to become “brides of Christ”; in each case, each is modeling his or her bond after the example set by the Holy Family, in which devotion is completely untethered from carnality.

"ABOUT THE AUTHOR"

The following passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's collection of essays, Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 1, now available (along with Volume 2) for a low low price from Kindle and in paperback.

by Andy Nowicki

I am not a successful man.

I don’t say this because I’m eagerly soliciting assurances to the contrary. I’m not courting your flattery. I’m merely reflecting upon an observable fact.

As always, refuge can be found in semantics. Yes, the question of what constitutes “success” is of course contingent upon how one defines the term. And yes, there are less successful men in the world than me. But I don’t claim to be below all others; I merely, and quite rightly, declare myself to fall well short of the “success” bar.

MARRIAGE AND THE CHURCH: "FROM THE BEGINNING, IT WAS NOT SO"

The passage below is taken from Andy Nowicki’s just released collection Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 2, now available for purchase (along with Volume 1) in paperback and on Kindle.

by Andy Nowicki

Apt as I daresay the previous essay is in its thorough examination of New Testament-expressed attitudes towards matrimony, historical Christendom has, needless to say, adopted an entirely divergent mindset on the matter. For adherents to historical Christendom, marriage is indeed an unmixed blessing for men and women, not a concession granted from on high based on a divine understanding of human weakness.

MARRIAGE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, CELIBACY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

The passage below is taken from Andy Nowicki’s just released collection Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 2, now available for purchase (along with Volume 1) in paperback and on Kindle.  

by Andy Nowicki

THE TWO TESTAMENTS: A DUBIOUS DISTINCTION

But before going further in this investigation, it would perhaps be appropriate to backtrack and draw attention to one relevant and conspicuous distinction, both in theme and in content, between the New and Old Testaments of the Holy Bible.