Clarissa's Blog

The story of Lance Twiggs is very interesting in what it tells us about the nature of masculinity. His lifestyle – the mold experiments, the gadgets, the collectible cards, the trinkets, the mess in the living room, the financial dependence – are those of a young, badly parented boy. He never became an adult man in anything other than his biological age and physical development. His forays into transgenderism and furrying are a clear sign that he knew he wasn’t managing to become a man.

“If I’m not a man, I must be a woman or am animal” was his logic, and it does make sense in a really warped way. He clearly perceived a mismatch between the form and the content of his self and tried to plaster the rift with adopting other identities and self-medicating with drugs.

We can pretend all we want that reality is infinitely malleable but it’s not. We have shied away from talking about the importance of male rites of passage, normal stages of masculinity, male communities and networks of support, and the result is a large number of young men who have no idea how to bring their minds into alignment with their bodies of grown men.

Everybody seems to have forgotten about Tyler Robinson, the murderer of Charlie Kirk. Here’s a new investigation into him and his boyfriend who has now seemingly been allowed to evade all responsibility for egging on the murderer:

Corroborating the veracity of the @anonbirdd aka Turkey Tom leaks on Tyler Robinson & Lance Twiggs. 7 points of contact match. The bathroom match adds validity to the anonymous claims in the Tom substack.

Turkey Tom leaked discord chats, photos, and interview:… pic.twitter.com/GLZYiwfThL

— midGRAY (@_midGRAY) November 9, 2025

The Right refuses to honor its dead and turns the investigation of a brutal assassination into a self-promotion opportunity for its most tenuously grounded members. The discussion of Kirk’s murder should go back to Robinson, Twiggs, and the subculture that created them but too many people are finding it profitable to derail the investigation.

In a similar situation, the Left would have arrested everybody who ever was in the same room with the killer, reshaped every institution in the country and assigned collective condemnation of the perpetrator in every classroom starting from infant daycare.

This is why we lose. We can’t stay on point, can’t avoid getting baited into attacking each other and giving the opponent a pass on everything.

Let’s find some inner discipline and go back to discussing what actually happened.

I swear, I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, I swear.

OK, it’s everyone for himself. Everybody save your own hide. Let’s talk about productivity strategies and individual psychological resilience.

I was at Ulta yesterday. It’s a makeup chain, in case people don’t know. The front part of the store is given over to stuff branded with the movie Wicked franchise. Make-up, hair clips – it’s all very expensive and very clearly aimed at middle-aged women. I liked most of the products, which goes to show that they are not for teenage girls or young adults.

I find it very hard to understand this. I like the products but the ditzy children’s fairy tale association makes me not want to buy them. And a young girl who likes the movie won’t wear the heavy dark colors in a momsy palette.

Then I started thinking, what are the cultural references for people in my age category, and there’s nothing. Everything is based on the idea that you will be a teenager forever.

I have my own coffeemaker that I love and pour my morning cup as a wakeup ritual. I can’t have more than one cup a day because I get jittery but that first morning sip is wonderful.

This is why I haven’t bought coffee at local coffee shops for years. Today, I went to a locally owned café (not a chain), and asked for a 12-ounce cup of coffee with milk. No fancy syrups, cold brews, nitro soy whipped flavored seasonal weird name concoctions. Simply Kaffee mit Milch. It cost me $6.80 and the cash register suggested adding a 20% tip.

The coffee wasn’t worth the price but the enlightenment it brought was.

The mysterious J6 Pipe bomber may have been identified. This  fascinating investigation by The Blaze is a must-read on this Saturday morning.

Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say.

A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect, according to a Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources.

A source close to a congressional investigation of Jan. 6 additionally told Blaze News evidence has emerged recently that pointed toward law enforcement possibly being involved in the planting of the pipe bombs.

People with more refined sensibilities and higher intellectual capacity perceive themselves as such. And they want to be recognized as smart, refined people.

But if they live in a culture where there’s a gigantic taboo on recognizing that more refined sensibilities and higher IQs exist, what will they do? They’ll try to attract attention to their very exceptional refinement by being more outraged than anybody else by the idea that refinement and intellect exist.

I mean, good. Or whatever.

Can somebody explain why the travails of the Daarood clan should be of this momentous importance to Minneapolis?

First of all, there’s always a small chance this is physical. Please make sure to bring this up to your GP.

If it’s not physical (and it probably isn’t), you will find the reason by answering the following questions:

What does this behavior allow you to do?

What does it allow you to avoid doing?

Who is the audience of the behavior?

To give an example, my mother suffered from horrific migraines for twenty years. The medical science was impotent to find a cause, let alone to offer relief. My mother’s very last migraine happened on the day before her youngest child moved out. Then she was cured. It’s a medical miracle.

The audience left, and the behavior was no longer needed. Mind you, this doesn’t mean the migraines weren’t real. They were very, very real. And so was the gain they brought her, outweighing the costs of the terrible suffering they inflicted.

With the accidents, you are either addressing somebody else or yourself. There’s something in your current situation that you want to change in the direction allowed to you by the accidents. Only you know what it is. When I advise people to remove themselves from the proximity of the sufferer, it’s not to be cruel. To the contrary, it might be very helpful to the sufferer to have the audience leave the theater.