The Rational Ram

One of my favorite movies is the 1985 film Mask starring Cher as Florence “Rusty” Tullis and Eric Stoltz as Tullis’ son Rocky Dennis. The top half of the photo that opens this post depicts Cher and Stoltz in their respective Mask roles and the bottom half is the real life Rocky Dennis and Rusty […]

Regular readers and followers of The Rational Ram should already know that I am a fan of classic television. One of my favorite classic television series is the original Twilight Zone (1959-1964). While I cannot agree upon an absolute number one favorite episode of Rod Serling’s Zone series, the sixth episode of the second season, […]

“Aggrieved entitlement” does not have a formal definition. At least not one that I can find. In fact, I first learned of the term while reading the book Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel. Kimmel never really formally defines the term either except to describe the white men he interviewed for his book, which he […]

This is the third and final installment of my series on “deconstructing the Manosphere”. Of all of the idiotic Manosphere tenets, the metaphor of “women hitting the wall” is the most ludicrous and hypocritical. As I mentioned in the first two entries of this series, the Manosphere is made up losers who suffer from aggrieved […]

As predicted by yours truly, Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination today. I won’t rehash the reasoning behind my prediction in this blog entry, but that post can be read at the link below: https://therationalram.blog/2020/03/05/why-bernie-sanders-will-not-become-president/ The gist of that post is that Sanders didn’t stand a chance against former Vice-President […]

I open part two of this three part series on deconstructing the so-called Manosphere with a preface… The Manosphere is mostly an online phenomenon and is not representative of the thoughts and attitudes of most men. However, since most of us live online lives to some degree, to say that the red pill ideology running […]

I wrote a blog post about the politics of fear in a general sense this past July as one of my early blog entries. You can read that post at the link below: https://therationalram.blog/2019/07/28/the-politics-of-fear/ This blog entry is more focused on the current coronavirus pandemic, but the premise is the same.. We all need to […]

This is the first of a three part series of posts where I will deconstruct the three most prominent tenets of the so-called “Manosphere”. Those three tenets being sexual market value theory, female hypergamy, and the concept of “the wall”. For the uninitiated among my readers, the Manosphere is defined as “a loose network of […]

You have to be disgustedly in awe of the competitive dichotomy we practice in this country. To most Americans, life is a zero-sum game. If minorities are making gains, it is at the expense of white Americans. If women are making gains, it is at the expense of men. If a person becomes a self-made […]

How much do you really care? A very simple question with a complex answer. I am in the midst of reading the book Extreme Ownership by author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink, and let me tell you, the forward alone makes the rest of the book required reading for humanity, especially those of us […]