Are you wondering how to talk to your kids about sex? One great way to introduce them to the basics is to make sure they watch Disney movies. From LifeSite news:

Researchers at the University of Michigan have concluded that the love stories told in classic Disney and other G-rated children’s films – such as the Little Mermaid – are partially to blame for the pervasiveness of what they label “heteronormativity.” “Despite the assumption that children’s media are free of sexual content, our analyses suggest that these media depict a rich and pervasive heterosexual landscape,” wrote researchers Emily Kazyak and Karin Martin, in a report published in the latest issue of the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) publication Gender & Society.

A few days ago, I was arguing that conservatives need to articulate a general defense of codes of modesty, one that is based on an understanding of the sacred, and one not scandalized by the diversity in standards of modest dress found in the world’s cultures. I said that if we don’t do this, the liberals aren’t going to stop with attacking Muslim sensibilities; they’re going to come after ours. Pretty soon, I said, some crazy feminists are going to demand that we let women go around topless.

Well, I’ve just seen linked from one of my favorite fellow bloggers, Oz Conservative, this:

Authorities in the city of Malmö in Sweden have decided to let women swim topless at public swimming pools. It was thought discriminatory that men should be allowed to swim bare breasted and not women. Notice the title quote of the article: “They’re just breasts.” Although framed as an issue of equality, the issue is really one of reverence. Does a woman’s body belong to the first level of being (raw material for her and our benefit) or the third (endowed with intrinsic objective meanings). (See here for a further explanation of these terms.) The chaste and pious man sees every woman as a sacred mystery. As with all sacred things, her body is set apart from the profane world; it may only be approached by a centain man, and even for him only for centain purposes and with a centain reverential attitude. The goal of these bare-breasted radicals is to tear the female body out of the realm of the sacred and throw it into the profane realm. This is the act of desecration.

In the Gorgias, Socrates is being ridiculed because his philosophical method has no practical use, unlike the skills of the sophists, which allow someone to manipulate the public for his own benefit. He replies:

President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Monday that the Islamic burqa is not welcome in France, branding the face-covering, body-length gown as a symbol of subservience that suppresses women’s identities and turns them into “prisoners behind a screen.”

New Euro-skeptic group in the European Parliament! This is certainly a positive development. On the other hand, David Cameron still betrays a desperate need to be respected by the leftist establishment. He is not to be trusted.

Old Paleos and New: Charles A. Coulombe discusses what he sees as a difference in outlook between younger and older paleoconservatives. Coulombe and the “young” paleoconservatives sound a great deal like myself.

Turning aside for the moment from the question of who really won the election (on which you already know my opinion), let us ask ourselves who we should have liked to have won it. This is by no means the no-brainer that you might think from watching the liberal-secularist news.