Only Men Can Man the Barricades, pt. 1
The ironic consequence of the sexual liberation movement is that woman got "screwed."
Note: This is an excerpt from my most recent piece at Man’s World. You can read the entire piece here.
Our 60-year social experiment with multiple “waves” of feminism has nearly destroyed our culture, country, and civilization. Beginning in the 1960s, Second Wave feminists like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the universal suffrage of First Wave feminism off the rails. The destruction begun by the Second Wave feminists accelerated with Third Wave “intersectionality” in the 1990s, and reached the peak of nonsense with digitized Fourth Wave feminism in the 21st century. Catastrophe is the result.
Feminism has destroyed women by transforming them into unbalanced neurotic girl-bosses. Simultaneously, it has emasculated men by flooding our culture with nonsense tropes about toxic masculinity and male privilege while pacifying us with video games, pornography, pharmaceuticals, and low-quality “food.”
It did all this by ignoring the fact that strong men built our civilization across more than 2,500 years, including the entirety of our physical infrastructure (roads, bridges, ports, and buildings) and all our abstract institutions (law, government, science, technology). In other words, almost every man-made thing is, literally, man-made. It was these strong men who also “manned the barricades,” so to speak. They defended what they had built against barbarian hordes, invading armies, common thieves, and stupid ideas like communism. They did so to protect a certain type of woman who was essential to raising a certain type of child; namely, those who might carry the fire of civilization.
Feminism denies or feigns ignorance of these facts, even as its proponents write angry manifestoes on laptops made by men from within homes constructed by men on fine furniture crafted by men. They then distribute those manifestoes across the planet using digital signals encoded with mathematical principles discovered by men.
Ultimately, feminism disrupted and nearly destroyed the proper relationship between men and women (and the proper refuge for children) by destroying the essential character of each. It did that by disregarding the life-sustaining and life-affirming role of women during the millennia that men built western civilization. If the only thing women had done was give birth to and raise the boys who became the men who built civilization, that would be the single greatest accomplishment in all the history of our species. And yet they did so much more: they tamed men’s voracious appetites with monogamous families conducive to effective child rearing; channeled men’s insatiable ambition into civic duty; and refined men’s unbridled power with chivalry, etiquette, and decency. The right kind of woman created the gentleman.
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A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
Her husband has full confidence in her
and lacks nothing of value.
She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life.
She selects wool and flax
and works with eager hands.
She is like the merchant ships,
bringing her food from afar.
She gets up while it is still night;
she provides food for her family
and portions for her female servants.
She considers a field and buys it;
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
She sets about her work vigorously;
her arms are strong for her tasks.
She sees that her trading is profitable,
and her lamp does not go out at night.
In her hand she holds the distaff
and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
She opens her arms to the poor
and extends her hands to the needy.
When it snows, she has no fear for her household;
for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
She makes coverings for her bed;
she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
Her husband is respected at the city gate,
where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them,
and supplies the merchants with sashes.
She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
“Many women do noble things,
but you surpass them all.”
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Honor her for all that her hands have done,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
Prov 31:10-31, NRSV
Excellent and very astute and extremely accurate observation of the devastation brought upon this country by feminism! It is shameful that men have allowed it to happen.
It is time, actually past time, for men, real men, to rise up and correct this pathetic situation!
We do not have to be tolerant of it. Men had their reasons to tolerate it that I think resides in the weakness and vulnerability of men who have very low levels of virtue and virility!
Let us rise up, take control with virtue, Valor, character, strength, and authority of manhood and drive the feminist out of areas of influence in our society and inspire or women to choose the dignity and strength of true womanhood and bless this world with their true essence and value to children that they bear and families that they, as helpmeets to their husbands, build that will bless the family to survive for generations in the future.