Today, on the first day of the new decade of '201x' years, I am going to tell you why that is. I am hereby triggering the national dialog on what the foremost challenge for the United States will be in this decade, which is the ultimate root cause of most of the other problems we appear to be struggling with. What you are about to read is the equivalent of someone in 1997 describing the expected forces governing the War on Terror from 2001-2009 in profound detail.
This is a very long article, the longest ever written on The Futurist. As it is a guide to the next decade of social, political, and sexual strife, it is not meant to be read in one shot but rather digested slowly over an extended period, with all supporting links read as well (if those links are still active after years pass). As the months and years of this decade progress, this article will seem all the more prophetic.
Executive Summary : The Western World has quietly become a civilization that has tainted the interaction between men and women, where the state forcibly transfers resources from men to women creating various perverse incentives for otherwise good women to make extremely unwise life choices, destructive to both themselves and others. This is unfair to both genders, and is a recipe for a rapid civilizational decline and displacement, the costs of which will ultimately be borne by a subsequent generation of innocent women, rather than men, as soon as 2020. The primary culprits in perpetuating this injustice are not average women, but radical 'feminists' and an assortment of sinister, dishonest men who variously describe themselves as 'male feminists' or 'social conservatives'.
Now, the basic premise of this article is that men and women are equally valuable, but have different strengths and weaknesses, and different priorities. A society is strongest when men and women have roles that are complementary to each other, rather than of an adverserial nature. Furthermore, when one gender (either one) is mistreated, the other ends up becoming disenfranchised as well. If you disagree with this premise, you may not wish to read further.
The Cultural Thesis
The Myth of Female Oppression : When you tell someone that they are oppressed, against all statistical and logical evidence, you harm them by generating discouragement and resentment. This pernicious effect is the basis of many forms of needlessly inflicted female unhappiness, as well as the basis for unjustified retaliation against men.
All of us have been taught how women have supposedly been oppressed throughout human existence, and that this was pervasive, systematic, and endorsed by ordinary men who did not face hardships as severe as what women endured. In reality, this narrative is entirely incorrect. The average man was forced to risk death on the battlefield, at sea, or in mines, while most women stayed indoors tending to children and household duties. Male life expectancy was always significantly lower than that of females, and still is.
Warfare has been a near constant feature of human society before the modern era, and whenever two tribes or kingdoms went to war with each other, the losing side saw many of its fighting-age men exterminated, while the women were assimilated into the invading society. Now, becoming a concubine or a housekeeper is an unfortunate fate, but not nearly as bad as being slaughtered in battle as the men were. To anyone who disagrees, would you like for the men and women to trade outcomes?
Most of this narrative stems from 'feminists' comparing the plight of average women to the topmost men (the monarch and other aristocrats), rather than to the average man. This practice is known as apex fallacy, and whether accidental or deliberate, entirely misrepresents reality. To approximate the conditions of the average woman to the average man (the key word being 'average') in the Western world of a century ago, simply observe the lives of the poorest peasants in poor countries today. Both men and women have to perform tedious work, have insufficient food and clothing, and limited opportunities for upliftment.
As far as selective anecdotes like voting rights go, in the vast majority of cases, men could not vote either. In fact, if one compares every nation state from every century, virtually all of them extended exactly the same voting rights (or lack thereof) to men and women. Even today, out of 200 sovereign states, there are exactly zero that have a different class of voting rights to men and women. Any claim that women were being denied rights that men were given in even 1% of historical instances, falls flat.
This is not to deny that genuine atrocities like genital mutilation have been perpetrated against women; they have and still are. But men also experienced atrocities of comparable horror at the same time, which is simply not mentioned. In fact, when a man is genitally mutilated by a woman, some other women actually find this humorous, and are proud to say so publicly.
It is already wrong when a contemporary group seeks reparations from an injustice that occurred over a century ago to people who are no longer alive. It is even worse when this oppression itself is a fabrication. The narrative of female oppression by men should be rejected and refuted as the highly selective and historically false narrative that it is. In fact, this myth is evidence not of historical oppression, but of the vastly different propensity to complain between the two genders.
The Masculinity Vacuum in Entertainment : Take a look at the collage of entertainers here in this image, which will be relevant if you are older than 30. All of them were prominent in the 1980s, some spilling over on either side of that decade. They are all certainly very different from one another. But they have one thing in common - that there are far fewer comparable personas produced by Hollywood today.
As diverse and imperfect as these characters were, they were all examples of masculinity. They represented different archetypes, from the father to the leader to the ladies man to the rugged outdoorsman to the protector. They were all more similar than dissimilar, as they all were role-models for young boys of the time, often the same young boys. Celebrities as disparate as Bill Cosby and Mr. T had majority overlap in their fan bases, as did characters as contrasting as Jean-Luc Picard and The Macho Man Randy Savage.
At this point, you might be feeling a deep inner emptiness lamenting a bygone age, as the paucity of proudly, inspiringly masculine characters in modern entertainment becomes clear. Before the 1980s, there were different masculine characters, but today, they are conspicuously absent. Men are shown either as thuggish degenerates, or as effete androgynes. Sure, there were remakes of Star Trek and The A-Team, and series finales of Rocky and Indiana Jones. But where are the new characters? Why is the vacuum being filled solely with nostalgia? A single example like Jack Bauer is not sufficient to dispute the much larger trend of masculinity purging.
Modern entertainment typically shows businessmen as villains, and husbands as bumbling dimwits that are always under the command of the all-powerful wife, who is never wrong. Oprah Winfrey's platform always grants a sympathetic portrayal to a wronged woman, but never to men who have suffered great injustices. Absurdly false feminist myths such as a belief that women are underpaid relative to men for the same output of work, or that adultery and domestic violence are actions committed exclusively by men, are embedded even within the dialog of sitcoms and legal dramas.
This trains women to disrespect men, wives to think poorly of their husbands, and girls to devalue the importance of their fathers, which leads to the normalization of single motherhood (obviously with taxpayer subsidies), despite the reality that most single mothers are not victims, but merely women who rode a carousel of men with reckless abandon. This, in turn, leads to fatherless young men growing up being told that natural male behavior is wrong, and feminization is normal. It also leads to women being deceived outright about the realities of the sexual market, where media attempts to normalize single motherhood and attempted 'cougarhood' are glorified, rather than portrayed as the undesirable conditions that they are.
The Primal Nature of Men and Women : Genetic research has shown that before the modern era, 80% of women managed to reproduce, but only 40% of men did. The obvious conclusion from this is that a few top men had multiple wives, while the bottom 60% had no mating prospects at all. Women clearly did not mind sharing the top man with multiple other women, ultimately deciding that being one of four women sharing an 'alpha' was still more preferable than having the undivided attention of a 'beta'. Let us define the top 20% of men as measured by their attractiveness to women, as 'alpha' males while the middle 60% of men will be called 'beta' males. The bottom 20% are not meaningful in this context.
Research across gorillas, chimpanzees, and primitive human tribes shows that men are promiscuous and polygamous. This is no surprise to a modern reader, but the research further shows that women are not monogamous, as is popularly assumed, but hypergamous. In other words, a woman may be attracted to only one man at any given time, but as the status and fortune of various men fluctuates, a woman's attention may shift from a declining man to an ascendant man. There is significant turnover in the ranks of alpha males, which women are acutely aware of.
As a result, women are the first to want into a monogamous relationship, and the first to want out. This is neither right nor wrong, merely natural. What is wrong, however, is the cultural and societal pressure to shame men into committing to marriage under the pretense that they are 'afraid of commitment' due to some 'Peter Pan complex', while there is no longer the corresponding traditional shame that was reserved for women who destroyed the marriage, despite the fact that 90% of divorces are initiated by women. Furthermore, when women destroy the commitment, there is great harm to children, and the woman demands present and future payments from the man she is abandoning. A man who refuses to marry is neither harming innocent minors nor expecting years of payments from the woman. This absurd double standard has invisible but major costs to society.
To provide 'beta' men an incentive to produce far more economic output than needed just to support themselves while simultaneously controlling the hypergamy of women that would deprive children of interaction with their biological fathers, all major religions constructed an institution to force constructive conduct out of both genders while penalizing the natural primate tendencies of each. This institution was known as 'marriage'. Societies that enforced monogamous marriage made sure all beta men had wives, thus unlocking productive output out of these men who in pre-modern times would have had no incentive to be productive. Women, in turn, received a provider, a protector, and higher social status than unmarried women, who often were trapped in poverty. When applied over an entire population of humans, this system was known as 'civilization'.
All societies that achieved great advances and lasted for multiple centuries followed this formula with very little deviation, and it is quite remarkable how similar the nature of monogamous marriage was across seemingly diverse cultures. Societies that deviated from this were quickly replaced. This 'contract' between the sexes was advantageous to beta men, women over the age of 35, and children, but greatly curbed the activities of alpha men and women under 35 (together, a much smaller group than the former one). Conversely, the pre-civilized norm of alpha men monopolizing 3 or more young women each, replacing aging ones with new ones, while the masses of beta men fight over a tiny supply of surplus/aging women, was chaotic and unstable, leaving beta men violent and unproductive, and aging mothers discarded by their alpha mates now vulnerable to poverty. So what happens when the traditional controls of civilization are lifted from both men and women?
The Four Sirens : Four unrelated forces simultaneously combined to entirely distort the balance of civilization built on the biological realities of men and women. Others have presented versions of the Four Sirens concept in the past, but I am choosing a slightly different definition of the Four Sirens :
1) Easy contraception (condoms, pills, and abortions): In the past, extremely few women ever had more than one or two sexual partners in their lives, as being an unwed mother led to poverty and social ostracization. Contraception made it possible for females to act on their urges of hypergamy.
2) 'No fault' divorce, asset division, and alimony : In the past, a woman who wanted to leave her husband needed to prove misconduct on his part. Now, the law has changed to such a degree that a woman can leave her husband for no stated reason, yet is still entitled to payments from him for years to come. This incentivizes destruction because it enables women to transfer the costs of irresponsible behavior onto men and children.
3) Female economic freedom : Despite 'feminists' claiming that this is the fruit of their hard work, inventions like the vacuum cleaner, washing machine, and oven were the primary drivers behind liberating women from household chores and freeing them up to enter the workforce. These inventions compressed the chores that took a full day into just an hour or less. There was never any organized male opposition to women entering the workforce (in China, taxes were collected in a way that mandated female productivity), as more labor lowered labor costs while also creating new consumers. However, one of the main reasons that women married - financial support - was no longer a necessity.
Female entry into the workforce is generally a positive development for society, and I would be the first to praise this, if it were solely on the basis of merit (as old-school feminists had genuinely intended). Unfortunately, too much of this is now due to corrupt political lobbying to forcibly transfer resources from men to women.
4) Female-Centric social engineering : Above and beyond the pro-woman divorce laws, further state interventions include the subsidization of single motherhood, laws that criminalize violence against women (but offer no protection to men who are the victims of violence by women, which happens just as often), and 'sexual harassment' laws with definitions so nebulous that women have the power to accuse men of anything without the man having any rights of his own.
These four forces in tandem handed an unprecedented level of power to women. The technology gave them freedom to pursue careers and the freedom to be promiscuous. Feminist laws have done a remarkable job of shielding women from the consequences of their own actions. Women now have as close to a hypergamous utopia as has ever existed, where they can pursue alpha males while extracting subsidization from beta males without any reciprocal obligations to them. Despite all the new freedoms available to women that freed them from their traditional responsibilities, men were still expected to adhere to their traditional responsibilities.
Marriage 2.0 : From the West to the Middle East to Asia, marriage is considered a mandatory bedrock of any functioning society. If marriage is such a crucial ingredient of societal health, then the West is barreling ahead on a suicidal path.
We earlier discussed why marriage was created, but equally important were the factors that sustained the institution and kept it true to its objectives. The reasons that marriage 'worked' not too long ago were :
1) People married at the age of 20, and often died by the age of 50. People were virgins at marriage, and women spent their 20s tending to 3 or more children. Her peak years were contained within marriage. This is an entirely different psychological foundation than the present urban norm of a woman marrying at the age of 34 after her peak years are in the past and she has had 10 or more prior sexual relationships. Some such women have already underwent what can best be described as a fatocalypse.
2) It was entirely normal for 10-20% of young men to die or be crippled on the battlefield, or in occupational accidents. Hence, there were always significantly more women than able-bodied men in the 20-40 age group, ensuring that not all women could marry. Widows were common and visible, and vulnerable to poverty and crime. For these reasons, women who were married to able-bodied men knew how fortunate they were relative to other women who had to resort to tedious jobs just to survive, and treated their marriage with corresponding respect.
3) Prior to the invention of contraception, female promiscuity carried the huge risk of pregnancy, and the resultant poverty and low social status. It was virtually impossible for any women to have more than 2-3 sexual partners in her lifetime without being a prostitute, itself an occupation of the lowest social status.
4) Divorce carried both social stigma and financial losses for a woman. Her prospects for remarriage were slim. Religious institutions, extended clans, and broader societal forces were pressures to keep a woman committed to her marriage, and the notion of leaving simply out of boredom was out of the question.
Today, however, all of these factors have been removed. This is partly the result of good forces (economic progress and technology invented by beta men), but partly due to artificial schemes that are extremely damaging to society.
For one thing, the wedding itself has gone from a solemn event attended only by close family and friends, to an extravaganza of conspicuous consumption for the enjoyment of women but financed by the hapless man. The wedding ring itself used to be a family heirloom passed down over generations, but now, the bride thumbs through a catalog that shows her rings that the man is expected to spend two months of his salary to buy. This presumption that somehow the woman is to be indulged for entering marriage is a complete reversal of centuries-old traditions grounded in biological realities (and evidence of how American men have become weak pushovers). In some Eastern cultures, for example, it is normal even today for either the bride's father to pay for the wedding, or for the bride's family to give custody of all wedding jewelry to the groom's family. The reason for this was so that the groom's family effectively had a 'security bond' against irresponsible behavior on the part of the bride, such as her leaving the man at the (Eastern equivalent of the) altar, or fleeing the marital home at the first sign of distress (also a common female psychological response). For those wondering why Eastern culture has such restrictions on women and not men, restrictions on men were tried in some communities, and those communities quickly vanished and were forgotten. There is no avoiding the reality that marriage has to be made attractive to men for the surrounding civilization to survive. Abuse and blackmail of women certainly occurred in some instances, but on balance, these customs existed through centuries of observing the realities of human behavior. Persian, Indian, and Chinese civilization has survived for over 5000 years and every challenge imaginable through enforcement of these customs, and, until recently, the Christian world also had comparable mechanisms to steer individual behavior away from destructive manifestations. However, if the wedding has mutated into a carnival of bridezilla narcissism, the mechanics of divorce are far more disastrous.
In an 'at will' employment arrangement between a corporation and an employee, either party can terminate the contract at any time. However, instead of a few weeks of severance, imagine what would happen if the employer was legally required to pay the employee half of his or her paycheck for 20 additional years, irrespective of anything the employee did or did not do, under penalty of imprisonment for the CEO. Suppose, additionally, that it is culturally encouraged for an employee to do this whenever even minor dissatisfaction arises. Would businesses be able to operate? Would anyone want to be a CEO? Would businesses even form, and thus would any wealth be created, given the risks associated with hiring an employee? Keep these questions in mind as you read further.
So why are 70-90% of divorces initiated by women? Women have always been hypergamous, and most were married to beta men that they felt no attraction towards, so what has changed to cause an increase in divorce rates?
Divorce lawyers, like any other professional group, will seek conditions that are good for business. What makes attorneys different from, say, engineers or salespeople, is that a) they know precisely how to lobby for changes to the legal system, bypassing voters and the US constitution, that guarantees more revenue for them, and b) what benefits them is directly harmful to the fabric of society in general, and to children in particular. When they collude with rage-filled 'feminists' who openly say that 90% of the male gender should be exterminated, the outcome is catastrophic.
The concept of 'no fault' divorce by itself may not be unfair. The concepts of asset division and alimony may also be fair in the event of serious wrongdoing by the husband. However, the combination of no-fault divorce plus asset division/alimony is incredibly unfair and prone to extortionary abuse. The notion that she can choose to leave the marriage, yet he is nonetheless required to pay her for years after that even if he did not want to destroy the union, is an injustice that should not occur in any advanced democracy. Indeed, the man has to pay even if the woman has an extramarital affair, possibly even being ordered to pay her psychiatric fees. Bogus claims by 'feminists' that women suffer under divorce are designed to obscure the fact that she is the one who filed for divorce. Defenders of alimony insist that a woman seeking a divorce should not see a drop in living standards, but it is somehow acceptable for the husband to see a drop even if he did not want a divorce. I would go further and declare that any belief that women deserve alimony on a no-fault basis in this day age is utterly contradictory to the belief that women are equals of men. How can women both deserve alimony while also claiming equality? In rare cases, high-earning women have had to pay alimony to ex-husbands, but that is only 4% of the time, vs. the man paying 96% of the time. But it gets worse; much worse, in fact.
Even if the woman chooses to leave on account of 'boredom', she is still given default custody of the children, which exposes the total hypocrisy of feminist claims that men and women should be treated equally. Furthermore, the man is required to pay 'child support' which is assessed at levels much higher than the direct costs of child care, with the woman facing no burden to prove the funds were spent on the child, and cannot be specified by any pre-nuptial agreement. The rationale is that 'the child should not see a drop in living standards due to divorce', but since the mother has custody of the child, this is a stealthy way in which feminists have ensured financial maintenence of the mother as well. So the man loses his children and most of his income even if he did not want divorce. But even that is not the worst-case scenario.
The Bradley Amendment, devised by Senator Bill Bradley in 1986, ruthlessly pursues men for the already high 'child support' percentages, and seizes their passports and imprisons them without due process for falling behind in payments, even if on account of job loss during a recession. Under a bogus 'deadbeat dads' media campaign, 'feminists' were able to obscure the fact that women were the ones ending their marriages and with them the benefit that children receive from a two-parent upbringing, and further demanding unusually high spousal maintenence, much of which does not even go to the child, from a dutiful ex-husband who did not want a divorce, under penalty of imprisonment. So the legal process uses children as pawns through which to extract an expanded alimony stream for the mother. The phony tactic of insisting that 'it is for the children' is used to shut down all questions about the use of children as pawns in the extortion process, while avoiding scrutiny of the fact that the parent who is choosing divorce is clearly placing the long-term well-being of the children at a very low priority.
So as it stands today, there are large numbers of middle-class men who were upstanding citizens, who were subjected to divorce against their will, had their children taken from them, pay alimony masked as child support that is so high that many of them have to live out of their cars or with their relatives, and after job loss from economic conditions, are imprisoned simply for running out of money. If 10-30% of American men are under conditions where 70% or more of their income is taken from them under threat of prison, these men have no incentive to start new businesses or invent new technologies or processes. Having 10-30% of men disincentivized this way cannot be good for the economy, and is definitely a contributor to current economic malaise, not to mention a 21st-century version of slavery. Sometimes, the children are not even biologically his.
This one-page site has more links about the brutal tyranny that a man can be subjected to once he enters the legal contract of marriage, and even more so after he has children. What was once the bedrock of society, and a solemn tradition that benefited both men and women equally, has quietly mutated under the evil tinkering of feminists, divorce lawyers, and leftists, into a shockingly unequal arrangement, where the man is officially a second-class citizen who is subjected to a myriad of sadistic risks. As a result, the word 'marriage' should not even be used, given the totality of changes that have made the arrangement all but unrecognizable compared to its intended ideals. Suicide rates of men undergoing divorce run as high as 20%, and all of us know a man who either committed suicide, or admits seriously considering it during the dehumanization he faced even though he wanted to preserve the union. Needless to say, this is a violation of the US Constitution on many levels, and is incompatible with the values of any supposedly advanced democracy that prides itself on freedom and liberty. There is effectively a tyrannical leftist shadow state operating within US borders but entirely outside the US constitution, which can subject a man to horrors more worthy of North Korea than the US, even if he did not want out of the marriage, did not want to be separated from his children, and did not want to lose his job. Any unsuspecting man can be sucked into this shadow state.
Anyone who believes that two-parent families are important to the continuance of an advanced civilization, should focus on the explosive growth in revenue earned by divorce lawyers, court supervisors, and 'feminist' organizations over the past quarter-century. If Western society is to survive, these revenues should be chopped down to a tenth of what they presently are, which is what they would be if the elements that violate the US Constitution were repealed.
Marriage is no longer a gateway to female 'companionship', as we shall discuss later. For this reason, I cannot recommend 'marriage', in its modern state, to any young man living in the US, UK, Canada, or Australia. There are just too many things outside of his control that can catastrophically ruin his finances, emotions, and quality of life.
At a minimum, he should make sure that having children is the most important goal of his life. If not, then he has insufficient reason to enter this contract. If this goal is affirmed, then he should conduct research by speaking to a few divorced men about the laws and mistreatment they were subjected to, and attend a few divorce court hearings at the local courthouse. After gaining this information, if he still wants to take the risk, he should only marry if he can meet the following three conditions, none of which can substitute either of the other two :
1) The woman earns the same as, or more than, he does.
2) He has a properly done pre-nuptial arrangement with lawyers on each side (even though a pre-nup will not affect the worst aspect of divorce law - 'child support' as a cloak for stealth alimony and possible imprisonment).
3) He is deeply competent in seduction practices (Game), and can manage his relationship with his wife effortlessly. Even this is a considerable workload, however. More on this later.
There are still substantial risks, but at least they are somewhat reduced under these conditions. If marriage is a very important goal for a young man, he should seriously consider expatriation to a developing country, where he ironically may have a higher living standard than in the US after adjusting for divorce risk.
So, to review, the differences between Marriage 1.0 and Marriage 2.0 are :
- a) No fault asset division and alimony, where the abandoned spouse has to pay if he earns more, even if he did not want a divorce, and even if he is a victim of abuse, cuckolding, or adultery. There are rare instances of high-earning women getting caught in this trap as well.
- b) Women marrying after having 5 or more sexual partners, compared to just 0-1 previously. This makes it harder for the woman to form a pair bond with her husband.
- c) Women marrying at an age when very few years of their peak beauty are remaining, compared to a decade or more remaining under Marriage 1.0.
- d) Child custody is almost never granted to the man, so he loses his children on a 'no fault' basis.
Traditional cultures marketed marriage with such punctilious alacrity that most people today dare not even question whether the traditional truths still apply. Hence, hostility often ensues from a mere attempt to even broach the topic of whether marriage is still the same concept as it once was. Everyone from women to sadistic social conservatives to a young man's own parents will pressure and shame him into marriage for reasons they cannot even articulate, and condemn his request for a pre-nup, without having any interest in even learning about the horrendously unequal and carefully concealed laws he would be subjected to in the event that his wife divorces him through no reasons he can discern. But some men with an eye on self-preservation are figuring this out, and are avoiding marriage. By many accounts, 22% of men have decided to avoid marriage. So what happens to a society that makes it unattractive for even just 20% of men to marry?
Women are far more interested in marriage than men. Simple logic of supply and demand tells us that the institution of monogamous marriage requires at least 80% male participation in order to be viable. When male participation drops below 80%, all women are in serious trouble, since there are now 100 women competing for every 80 men, compounded with the reality that women age out of fertility much quicker than men. This creates great stress among the single female population. In the past, the steady hand of a young woman's mother and grandmother knew that her beauty was temporary, and that the most seductive man was not the best husband, and they made sure that the girl was married off to a boy with long-term durability. Now that this guidance has been removed from the lives of young women, thanks to 'feminism', these women are proving to be poor pilots of their mating lives who pursue alpha males until the age of 34-36 when her desirability drops precipitously and not even beta males she used to reject are interested in her. This stunning plunge in her prospects with men is known as the Wile E. Coyote moment, and women of yesteryear had many safety nets that protected them from this fate. The 'feminist' media's attempt to normalize 'cougarhood' is evidence of gasping desperation to package failure as a desirable outcome, which will never become mainstream due to sheer biological realities. Women often protest that a high number of sexual partners should not be counted as a negative on them, as the same is not a negative for men, but this is merely a manifestation of solipism. A complex sexual past works against women even if the same works in favor of men, due to the natural sexual attraction triggers of each gender. A wise man once said, "A key that can open many locks is a valuable key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a useless lock."
The big irony is that 'feminism', rather than improving the lives of women, has stripped away the safety nets of mother/grandmother guidance that would have shielded her from ever having to face her Wile E. Coyote moment. 'Feminism' has thus put the average woman at risk in yet another area.
Game (Learned Attraction and Seduction) : The Four Sirens and the legal changes feminists have instituted to obstruct beta men have created a climate where men have invented techniques and strategies to adapt to the more challenging marketplace, only to exceed their aspirations. This is a disruptive technology in its own right. All of us know a man who is neither handsome nor wealthy, but consistently has amazing success with women. He seems to have natural instincts regarding women that to the layperson may be indistinguishable from magic. So how does he do it?
Detractors with a vested interest in the present status quo are eager to misrepresent what 'Game' is, and the presence of many snake-oil salesmen in the field does not help, but as a definition :
The traits that make a man attractive to women are learnable skills, that improve with practice. Once a man learns these skills, he is indistinguishable from a man who had natural talents in this area. Whether a man then chooses to use these skills to secure one solid relationship or multiple brief ones, is entirely up to him.
The subject is too vast for any description over here to do it full justice, but in a nutshell, the Internet age enabled communities of men to share the various bits of knowledge they had field tested and refined (e.g. one man being an expert at meeting women during the daytime, another being an expert at step-by-step sexual escalation, yet another being a master of creating lasting love, etc.). The collective knowledge grew and evolved, and an entire industry to teach the various schools of 'Game' emerged. Men who comprehended the concepts (a minority) and those who could undertake the total reconstitution of their personalities and avalanche of rejections as part of the learning curve (a still smaller minority) stood to reap tremendous benefits from becoming more attractive than the vast majority of unaware men. While the 'pick-up artist' (PUA) implementation is the most media-covered, the principles are equally valuable for men in monogamous long-term relationships (LTRs). See Charlotte Allen's cover story for The Weekly Standard, devoted to 'Game'.
Among the most valuable learnings from the body of knowledge is the contrarian revelation that what women say a man should do is often quite the antithesis of what would actually bring him success. For example, being a needy, supplicative, eager-to-please man is precisely the opposite behavior that a man should employ, where being dominant, teasing, amused, yet assertive is the optimal persona. An equally valuable lesson is to realize when not to take a woman's words at face value. Many statements from her are 'tests' to see if the man can remain congruent in his 'alpha' personality, where the woman is actually hoping the man does not eagerly comply to her wishes. Similarly, the 'feminist' Pavlovian reaction to call any non-compliant man a 'misogynist' should also not be taken as though a rational adult assigned the label after fair consideration. Such shaming language is only meant to deflect scrutiny and accountability from the woman uttering it, and should be given no more importance than a 10-year-old throwing a tantrum to avoid responsibility or accountability. Far too many men actually take these slurs seriously, to the detriment of male rights and dignity.
Success in internalizing the core fundamentals of Game requires an outside-the-box thinker solidly in the very top of Maslow's Hierarchy, and in my experience, 80% of men and 99.9% of women are simply incapable of comprehending why the skills of Game are valuable and effective. Many women, and even a few pathetic men, condemn Game, without even gaining a minimal comprehension for what it truly is (which I have highlighted in red above), and how it benefits both men and women. Most of what they think they know about Game involves strawmen, a lack of basic research, and their own sheer insecurity.
For anyone seeking advice on learning the material, there is one rule you must never break. I believe it is of paramount importance that the knowledge be used ethically, and with the objective of creating mutually satisfying relationships with women. It is not moral to mistreat women, even if they have done the same to countless men. We, as men, have to take the high road even if women are not, and this is my firm belief. Nice guys can finish first if they have Game.
'Feminism' as Unrestrained Misandry and Projection : The golden rule of human interactions is to judge a person, or a group, by their actions rather than their words. The actions of 'feminists' reveal their ideology to be one that seeks to secure equality for women in the few areas where they lag, while distracting observers from the vast array of areas where women are in a more favorable position relative to men (the judicial system, hiring and admissions quotas, media portrayals, social settings, etc.). They will concoct any number of bogus statistics to maintain an increasingly ridiculous narrative of female oppression.
Feminists once had noble goals of securing voting rights, achieving educational parity, and opening employment channels for women. But once these goals were met and even exceeded, the activists did not want to lose relevance. Now, they tirelessly and ruthlessly lobby for changes in legislation that are blatantly discriminatory against men (not to mention unconstitutional and downright cruel). Not satisfied with that, they continue to lobby for social programs designed to devalue the roles of husbands and fathers, replacing them with taxpayer-funded handouts.
As it is profitable to claim victimhood in this age, a good indicator is whether any condemnation by the supposedly oppressed of their oppressor could be similarly uttered if the positions were reversed. We see an immense double standard regarding what women and men can say about each other in America today. This reveals one of the darkest depths of the human mind - when a group is utterly convinced that they are the 'victims' of another group, they can rationalize any level of evil against their perceived oppressors.
Go to any major 'feminist' website, such as feministing.com or Jezebel.com, and ask polite questions about the fairness of divorce laws, or the injustice of innocent men being jailed on false accusations of rape without due process. You will quickly be called a 'misogynist' and banned from commenting. The same is not true for any major men's site, where even heated arguments and blatant misandry are tolerated in the spirit of free speech and human dignity. When is the last time a doctrinaire 'feminist' actually had the courage to debate a fair woman like Camille Paglia, Tammy Bruce, or Christina Hoff Somers on television?
Ever-tightening groupthink that enforces an ever-escalating narrative of victimhood ensures that projection becomes the normal mode of misandrist thought. The word 'misogynist' has expanded to such an extreme that it is the Pavlovian response to anything a 'feminist' feels bad about, but cannot articulate in an adult-like manner. This reveals the projected gender bigotry of the 'feminist' in question, which in her case is misandry. For example, an older man dating women 10 years younger than him is also referred to as a 'misogynist' by the older bitterati. Not an ageist, mind you, but a misogynist. A man who refuses to find obese women attractive is also a 'misogynist', as are gay men who do not spend money on women. The male non-compliance labeled as 'misogyny' thus becomes a reaction to many years of unopposed misandry heaped on him first, when he initially harbored no such sentiments. Kick a friendly dog enough times, and you get a nasty dog.
There are laws such as the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), that blatantly declares that violence against women is far worse than violence against men. VAWA is very different from ordinary assault laws, because under VAWA, a man can be removed from his home at gunpoint if the woman makes a single phonecall. No due process is permitted, and the man's Constitutional rights are jettisoned. At the same time, half of all domestic violence is by the woman against the man. Tiger Woods' wife beat him with a blunt weapon and scratched his face, only to be applauded by 'feminists' in a 'you go girl' manner. Projection can normalize barbarism.
Rape legislation has also bypassed the US Constitution, leaving a man guilty until he proves himself innocent, while the accusing woman faces no penalty for falsely sending a man to prison for 15 years, where he himsef will get raped. The Duke Lacrosse case was a prominent example of such abuse, but hundreds of others occur in America each year. The laws have been changed so that a victim has 1 month to 'decide' if she has been raped, and such flexibility predicatably leads to instances of a woman reporting rape just so that she does not have to tell her husband that she cheated on him (until it becomes profitable to divorce him). 40-50% of all rape accusations are false, but 'feminists' would rather jail scores of innocent men than let one guilty man get away, which is the exact opposite of what US Constitutional jurisprudence requires.
But, unimaginably, it gets even worse. Polls of men have shown that there is one thing men fear even more than being raped themselves, and that is being cuckolded. Men see cuckolding as the ultimate violation and betrayal, yet there is an entire movement among 'feminists' to enshrine a woman's right to commit adultery and use the resources of her husband to dupe him into thinking the child is his. These misandrists even want to outlaw the right of a man to test the paternity of a child.
So, to review, if a woman has second thoughts about a tryst a few days later, she can, without penalty, ruin a man financially and send him to prison for 15 years. 'Feminists' consider this acceptable. At the same time, even though men consider being cuckolded a worse fate than being raped, 'feminists' want to make this easier for a woman to do, by preventing paternity testing. They already have rigged laws so that the man, upon 'no fault' divorce, has to pay alimony, to a woman who cuckolded him.
This is pure evil, ranking right up there with the worst tyrannies of the last century. Modern misandry masking itself as 'feminism' is, without equal, the most hypocritical ideology in the world today. The laws of a society are the DNA of that society. Once the laws are tainted, the DNA is effectively corrupted, and mutations to the society soon follow. Men have been killed due to 'feminism'. Children and fathers have been forcibly separated for financial gain via 'feminism'. Slavery has returned to the West via 'feminism'. With all these misandric laws, one can fairly say that misandry is the new Jim Crow.
Shaming Language and Projection as a Substitute for Rational Debate : As discussed previously, any legitimate and polite questions about the fairness of anti-male realities in the legal system and media are quickly met with Pavlovian retorts of 'misogynist' and 'loser'. Let us deconstruct these oft-used examples of shaming language, and why misandrists are so afraid of legitimate debate.
Contrary to their endless charges of 'misogyny' (a word that many 'feminists' still manage to misspell), in reality, most men instinctively treat women with chivalry and enshrine them on exalted pedestals. Every day, we see men willing to defend women or do favors for them. There is infinitely more chivalry than misogyny exhibited by the male population. On the other hand, we routinely see anti-male statements uttered by 'feminists', and a presumption that all men are monsters guilty of crimes committed by a small number of people of the same gender. When well-known 'feminists' openly state that 90% of the male population should be exterminated, the unsupported accusation of 'misogyny' is a very pure manifestion of their own misandric projection.
On the second charge of being a 'loser who cannot get laid', any observation of the real world quickly makes it obvious that men who have had little experience with women are the ones placing women on pedestals, while those men who have had substantial sexual experience with women are not. Having sex with a large number of women does not increase respect for women, which is the exact opposite of the claim that 'feminists' make. Again, this charge of 'loserdom' is merely the psychosexual frustration of 'feminists' projected outwards, who express surprise that unrelenting hatred by them towards men is not magically metabolized into love for these particular 'feminists'.
That misandrists are so unchallenged is the reason that they have had no reason to expand their arsenal of venom beyond these two types of projection. Despite my explanation of this predictable Pavlovian response, the comments section will feature misandrists use these same two slurs nonetheless, proving the very point that they seek to shout down, and the very exposure they seek to avoid. My pre-emption will not deter them from revealing their limitations by indulging in it anyway. They simply cannot help themselves, and are far from being capable of discussing actual points of disagreement in a rational manner.
Men, of course, have to be savvy about the real reason their debate skills are limited to these two paths of shaming language, and not be deterred. Once again, remember that this should be taken no more seriously than if uttered by a 10-year-old, and there is no reason to let a 'feminist' get away with anything you would not let a man get away with. They wanted equality, didn't they?
'Feminism' as Genuine Misogyny : The greatest real misogyny, of course, has been unwittingly done by the 'feminists' themselves. By encouraging false rape claims, they devalue the credibility of all claims, and genuine victims will suffer. By incentivizing the dehumanization of their ex-husbands and the use of children as pawns, they set bad examples for children, and cause children to resent their mothers when they mature. By making baseless accusations of 'misogyny' without sufficient cause, they cause resentment among formerly friendly men where there previously was none. By trying to excuse cuckolding and female domestic violence, they invite formerly docile men to lash out in desperation.
One glaring example of misandry backfiring is in the destruction of marriage and corresponding push of the 'Sex in the City/cougar' fantasy. Monogamous marriage not only masked the gap between 'alpha' and 'beta' men, but also masked the gap between attractiveness of women before and after their Wile E. Coyote moment. By seducing women with the myth that a promiscuous single life after the age of 35 is a worthy goal, many women in their late 30s are left to find that they command far less male attention than women just a decade younger than them. 'Feminism' sold them a moral code entirely unsuited to their physical and mental realities, causing great sadness to these women.
But most importantly, 'feminists' devalued the traditional areas of female expertise (raising the next generation of citizens), while attaching value only to areas of male expertise (the boardroom, the military, sexual promiscuity) and told women to go duplicate male results under the premise that this was inherently better than traditional female functions. Telling women that emulating their mothers and grandmothers is less valuable than mimicking men sounds quite misogynistic to me, and unsurprisingly, despite all these 'freedoms', women are more unhappy than ever after being inflicted with such misogyny.
So how did the state of affairs manage to get so bad? Surely 'feminists' are not so powerful?
Social Conservatives, White Knights, and Girlie-Men : It would be inaccurate to deduce that misandrists were capable of creating this state of affairs on their own, despite their vigor and skill in sidestepping both the US Constitution and voter scrutiny. Equally culpable are men who ignorantly believe that acting as obsequious yes-men to 'feminists' by turning against other men in the hope that their posturing will earn them residual scraps of female affection.
Chivalry has existed in most human cultures for many centuries, and is seen in literature from all major civilizations. Chivalry greatly increased a man's prospects of marriage, but the reasons for this have been forgotten. Prior to the modern era, securing a young woman's hand in marriage usually involved going through her parents. The approval of the girl's father was a non-negotiable channel in the process. If a young man could show the girl's parents that he would place her on a pedestal, they could be convinced to sanction the union. The girl herself was not the primary audience of the chivalry, as the sexual attraction of the girl herself was rarely aroused by chivalry, as the principles of Game have shown.
Hence, many men are still stuck in the obsolete, inobservant, and self-loathing notion that chivalry and excess servility are the pathways to sex today, despite the modern reality that a woman's sexual decisions are no longer controlled by her parents, and are often casual rather than locked in matrimony. Whether such men are religious and called 'social conservatives', or effete leftists and called 'girlie men', they are effectively the same, and the term 'White Knights' can apply to the entire group. Their form of chivalry when exposed to 'feminist' histrionics results in these men harming other men at the behest of women who will never be attracted to them. This is why we see peculiar agreement between supposedly opposed 'social conservatives' and 'feminists' whenever the craving to punish men arises. A distressingly high number of men actually support the imprisonment of innocent men for false rape accusations or job loss causing 'child support' arrears merely because these 'men' don't want to risk female disapproval, incorrectly assuming that fanatically vocal 'feminists' represent the official opinion of all women. These men are the biggest suckers of all, as their pig-headed denial of the effectiveness of Game will prevent them from deducing that excess agreeability and willingness to do favors for the objects of their lust are exactly the opposite of what makes women sexually attracted to men. No woman feels attraction for a needy man.
For this reason, after lunatic 'feminists', these pedestalizing White Knights are the next most responsible party for the misandry in Western society today. The average woman is not obsessively plotting new schemes to denigrate and swindle men, she merely wants to side with whoever is winning (which presently is the side of misandry). But pedestalizing men actually carry out many dirty deeds against other men in the hopes of receiving a pat on the head from 'feminists'. Hence, the hierarchy of misandric zeal is thus :
Strident 'feminist' > pedestalizer/white knight > average woman.
For reasons described earlier, even a declaration that many men are bigger contributors to misandry than the average woman will not deter 'feminists' from their Pavlovian tendency to call articles such as this one 'misogynist'.
Lastly, the religious 'social conservatives' who continue their empty sermonizing about the 'sanctity of marriage' while doing absolutely nothing about the divorce-incentivizing turn that the laws have taken, have been exposed for their pseudo-moral posturing and willful blindness. What they claim to be of utmost importance to them has been destroyed right under their noses, and they still are too dimwitted to comprehend why. No other interest group in America has been such a total failure at their own stated mission. To be duped into believing that a side-issue like 'gay marriage' is a mortal threat to traditional marriage, yet miss the legal changes that correlate to a rise in divorce rates by creating incentives for divorce (divorce being what destroys marriage, rather than a tiny number of gays), is about as egregious an oversight as an astronomer failing to be aware of the existence of the Moon. Aren't conservatives the people who are supposed to grasp that incentives drive behavior? An article worthy of being written by The Onion could conceivably be titled 'Social conservatives carefully seek to maintain perfect 100% record of failure in advancing their agenda'.
Why There is No Men's Rights Movement : At this point, readers may be wondering "If things are this bad, why don't we hear anything about it?". Indeed, this is a valid question, and the answer lies within the fundamentals of male psychology. Most beta men would rather die than be called a 'loser' by women (alpha men, of course, know better than to take this at face value). White Knights also join in the chorus of shaming other men since they blunderously believe that this is a pathway to the satiation of their lust. So an unfairly ruined man is faced with the prospect of being shamed by women and a large cohort of men if he protests about the injustice, and this keeps him suffering in silence, leading to an early death. We have millions of fine young men willing to die on the battlefield to defend the values enshrined in the US Constitution, but we don't see protests of even 100 divorced men against the shamefully unconstitutional treatment they have received. The destruction of the two-parent family by incentivizing immoral behavior in women is at least as much of a threat to American safety and prosperity as anything that ever could have come out of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, or Saudi Arabia. Men being too afraid to be the 'squeaky wheel' even when they have lost their children and their present and future assets is a major contributor to the prevailing status quo. Alpha men have no incentive beyond altruism to act as they benefit from the current climate, and thus my altruism will be limited to putting forth these ideas.
Any serious movement has to start a think tank or two to produce research reports, symposiums, and specific policy recommendations, and the few divorce lawyers who were compelled by their conscience to leave the dark side have to be recruited as experts. Subsequently, televised panel discussions have to be conducted at top medical, business, and graduate engineering schools (where young men about to embark on lucrative careers are approaching marriage age, but know nothing about the law), documentary films have to be produced, prominent victims like Mel Gibson, Paul McCartney, Hulk Hogan, and Tiger Woods have to be recruited as spokesmen, and visibly powerful protests outside of divorce courts have to be organized. In this age of Web 2.0/social media/viral tools, all this should be easy, particularly given how quickly leftist groups can assemble a comparable apparatus for even obscure causes.
Instead, all that exists are Men's Rights Authors (MRAs) that run a few websites and exchange information on their blogs. 'Something is better than nothing' is the most generous praise I could possibly extend to their efforts, and this article I am presenting here on The Futurist is probably the single biggest analysis of this issue to date, even though this is not even a site devoted to the subject and I am not the primary author of this site. Hence, there will be no real Men's Rights Movement in the near future. The misandry bubble will instead be punctured through the sum of millions of individual market forces.
The Faultline of Civilization : After examining all the flaws in modern societies, and the laws that exacerbate them, it becomes apparent that there are two realms of legal/judicial thought that stand alone in determining whether our civilization is going to be ever-improving or merely cyclical. These two legal areas are a) the treatment of paternity rights, and b) the treatment of due process in rape accusations. The human brain is wired to value the well-being of women far higher than that of men (for reasons that were once valid, but no longer are today), which is why extending due process to a man falsely accused of rape is not of particular interest to people who otherwise value due process. Similarly, there is little resistance to 'feminist' laws that have stripped away all types of paternity rights from fathers. The father is not seen as valuable nor as worthy of rights, as we have seen above. These two areas of law are precisely where our society will decide if it ascends or declines. All other political sideshows, like immigration, race relations, and even terrorism are simply not as important as none of those can destroy an entire society the way these laws can.
The Economic Thesis
Ceilings and Floors of Glass : Misandrists shriek about a supposed 'glass ceiling' of pervasive sexism that explains why 50% of the CEOs of major corporations are not women. What is never mentioned is the equally valid 'glass floor', where we see that 90% of imprisonments, suicides, and crippling occupational injuries are of men. If these outcomes are the results of the actions or choices of men who suffer from them, then is that not the same reason that determines who rises above the 'glass ceiling'? The inability of misandrists to address these realities in good faith tells us something (but not everything) about the irrational sense of entitlement they have.
One of the most dishonest myths of all is the claim that 'women earn just 75% of men for the same job'. Let me dispense of this myth, in the process of which we will see why it is profitable and seductive for them to broadcast this bogus belief.
It is true that women, on average, earn less per year than men do. It is also true that 22-year-olds earn less, on average, than 40-year-olds. Why is the latter not an example of age discrimination, while the former is seized upon as an example of gender discrimination?
If women truly did earn less for doing exactly the same job as a man, any non-sexist CEO could thrash his competition by hiring only women, thus saving 25% on employee salaries relative to his competitors. Are we to believe that every major CEO and Board of Directors is so sexist as to sacrifice billions of dollars of profit? When the 'Director of Corporate Social Responsibility' of a nun congregation wrote to TJ Rodgers, CEO of Cypress Semiconductor, that his company should have more women in its Board of Directors, Rodgers replied with a letter explaining why the pursuit of profit could not accommodate such political correctness. That a nun congregation pays a recession-proof salary to someone as a 'Director of Corporate Social Responsibility' is itself an example of a pampered existence, and I was unaware that convents were now advancing secular Marxist beliefs.
Furthermore, women entrepreneurs could hire other women and out-compete any male-dominated business if such a pay gap existed, but we do not see this happening in any country in the world. Market forces would correct such mispricings in female compensation, if they actually existed. But they do not, and those who claim that they do are not just advertising an extreme economic illiteracy, but are quite happy to make similarly illiterate women angry about an injustice that does not exist. I notice that women who actually are/were CEOs of publicly traded companies never claim that there is a conspiracy to underpay women relative to their output.
I am willing to pass laws to ensure that 50% of all Fortune 500 CEOs are women, if we also legally mandate that 50% of all imprisonments are of women, and 50% of the jobs that involve working with heavy machinery, being outdoors in inclement weather, inhaling toxic fumes, or apprehending dangerous criminals are also occupied by women. Fair is fair. Any takers?
The 'Mancession' and the 'Sheconomy' : I would be the first to be happy if the economic success of women were solely on the basis of pure merit. For many of them, it is. But far too much has been the result of not market forces or meritocracy, but political graft and ideology-driven corruption.
In the recent recession and ongoing jobless recovery, the male unemployment rate continues to be much higher than the female unemployment rate. If this was simply due to market forces, that would be fine. However, 'feminist' groups have lobbied hard to ensure that government stimulus funds were steered to boost female employment at the expense of assistance for men. The leftist Obama administration was more than eager to comply, and a forcible transfer of wealth was enacted, even though it may not have been the best deployment of money for the economy.
Maria Shriver, a woman who has the most fortunate of lives from the vast wealth earned first by her grandfather and then by her husband, recently published 'A Woman's Nation : The Shriver Report', consisting of gloating about how women were now outperforming men economically. The entire research report is full of all the standard bogus feminist myths and flawed statistics, as thoroughly debunked here, as well as the outright sexism of statements like 'women are better managers' (imagine a man saying the reverse). Furthermore, the report reveals the typical economic illiteracy (evidenced by, among other things, the ubiquitous 'women are underpaid' myth), as well as belief that businesses exist to act as vehicles of social engineering rather than to produce a profit.
All of this bogus research and organized anti-male lobbying has been successful. As of today, the male unemployment rate is worse than the female unemployment rate by an unprecedented chasm. The 'mancession' continues as the US transitions to a 'sheconomy', and among the millions of unemployed men, some owe prohibitive levels of 'child support' despite not being the ones wanting to deprive their children of a two-parent household, landing in prison for lack of funds. Furthermore, I emphasize again that having 10-30% of the US male workforce living under an effective 70% marginal tax rate will kill their incentives for inventing new technologies or starting new companies. It is petty to debate whether the top federal income tax bracket should be 35% or 39.6%, when a slice of the workforce is under a 70% tax on marginal income. Beyond the tyranny of this, it also costs a lot of taxpayer money to jail a growing pool of unemployed men. Clearly, moving more and more men out of a tax-generating capacity and into a tax-consuming capacity is certainly going to do two-fold damage to governmental budgets. The next time you hear someone say that 'the US has the largest prison population in the world', be sure to mention that many of these men merely lost their jobs, and were divorced against their will. The women, in the meantime, are having a blast.
The Government Bubble : While public sector vs. private sector workforce distribution is not highly correlated to gender, it is when the focus is on women earning over $100,000 or more. This next chart from the Cato Institute shows that when total compensation (wages + benefits) are taken into account, the public sector has totally outstripped the private sector this decade. Has the productivity of the typical government employee risen so much more than that of the private worker, that the government employee is now paid twice as much? Are taxpayers receiving value for their money?
It goes further. The vast majority of social security taxes are paid by men, but are collected by women (due to women living 7 years longer than men on average). That is not troubling by any means, but the fact that women consume two-thirds of all US healthcare, despite most of this $2.5 Trillion annual expenditure being paid by men, is certainly worthy of debate. It may be 'natural' for women to require more healthcare, since they are the ones who give birth. But it was also 'natural' for men to finance this for only their wives, not for the broader community of women. The healthcare profession also employs an immense number of women, and not just in value-added roles such as nursing, but even in administrative and bureaucratic positions. In fact, virtually all government spending except for defense and infrastructure, from Medicare to Obamacare to welfare to public sector jobs for women to the expansion of the prison population, is either a net transfer of wealth from men to women, or a byproduct of the destruction of Marriage 1.0. In either case, 'feminism' is the culprit.
This Cato Institute chart of Federal Government spending (click to enlarge) shows how non-defense expenditures have steadily risen since 1960. The decline in defense spending, far from being a 'peace dividend' repatriated back to taxpayers, was used to fund more social programs. No one can seriously claim that the American public receives better non-defense governance in 2010 than in 1960 despite the higher price, and as discussed earlier, most of this increase is a direct or indirect result of 'feminism'. When state and local government wastage is added to this, it would appear that 20% of GDP is being spent just to make the government a substitute for the institution of Marriage, and yet still has not managed to be an effective replacement. Remember again that the earnings of men pays 70%-80% of all taxes.
The left has finally found a perfect Trojan Horse through which to expand a tyrannical state. 'Feminists' can lobby for a transfer of wealth from men to women and from private industry to the government, while knowing that calling any questioner a 'misogynist' will silence him far more effectively than their military fifth columnist and plain socialist brethren could ever silence their respective opponents. Conservatives are particularly vulnerable to such shaming language, and most conservatives will abandon their stated principles to endlessly support any and all socialism if it can be packaged as 'chivalry', the opposition to which makes one a 'misogynist'. However, there is reason to believe that tax collection in many parts of the US, such as in states like CA, NY, NJ, and MA, has reached saturation. As the optimal point has already been crossed, a rise in tax rates will cause a decrease, rather than an increase in revenue, and the increase in Federal tax rates exactly one year from today on 1/1/2011 is likely to cause another recession, which will not be so easily transferred to already-impoverished men the next time.
When men are severed from their children with no right to obstruct divorce, when they are excluded from the labor market not by market forces but rather by social engineering, and when they learn that the society they once believed in and in some cases joined the military to protect, has no respect for their aspirations, these men have no reason to sustain such a society.
The Contract Between the Sexes : A single man does not require much in order to survive. Most single men could eke out an adequate existence by working for two months out of the year. The reason that a man might work hard to earn much more than he needs for himself is to attract a wife amidst a competitive field, finance a home and a couple of children, and ultimately achieve status as a pillar of the community. Young men who exhibited high economic potential and favorable compatibility with the social fabric would impress a girl's parents effectively enough to win her hand in marriage. The man would proceed to work very hard, with the fruits of his labor going to the state, the employer, and the family. 80-90% of a man's output went to people other than himself, but he got a family and high status in return, so he was happy with the arrangement.
The Four Sirens changed this, which enabled women to pursue alpha males despite the mathematical improbability of marrying one, while totally ignoring beta males. Beta males who were told to follow a responsible, productive life of conformity found that they were swindled.
Men who excelled under the societal rules of just two decades ago are often left totally betrayed by the rules of today, and results in them refusing to sustain a society heavily dependent on their productivity and ingenuity. Women believed that they could free themselves from all their traditional obligations (only to find, amusingly, that they are unhappier now than they were then), while men would still fulfill all of their traditional obligations, particularly as bankrollers of women and protectors of women. Needless to say, despite the chivalry ground into men, eventually, they will feel that chivalry requires a level of gratitude that is not forthcoming.
To see what happens when the role of the husband and father is devalued, and the state steps in as a replacement, look no further than the African American community. In Detroit, the average home price has fallen from $98,000 as recently as 2003 to just $14,000 today. The auto industry moved jobs out of Detroit long before 2003, so the decline cannot be attributed to just industrial migration, and cities like Baltimore, Oakland, Cleveland, and Philadelphia are in scarcely better shape. For those who believe that this cannot happen in white communities, have a look at the white underclass in Britain. The lower half of the US white population is vulnerable to the same fate as the black community, and cities like Los Angeles are perilously close to 'Detroitification'.
Additionally, people seem to have forgotten that the physical safety of society, particularly of women, is entirely dependent on ratio of 'aggressor' men to 'protector' men staying below a certain critical threshold. As more men get shut out of the labor market, crime becomes an alternative. Even highly educated men who feel betrayed can lash out, and just about every shooting spree and every recent terrorist attempt in the West was by men who were educated and had good career prospects, but were unloved.
While professional men will certainly never resort to crime, what they could resort to is an unwillingness to aid a damsel in distress. More men will simply lose interest in being rescuers, and this includes policemen who may also feel mistreated by the prevailing misandry. Safety is like air - it is only noticed when it is gone. Women have a tremendous amount to lose by creating a lot of indifferent men.
Patriarchy works because it induces men and women to cooperate under their complementary strengths. 'Feminism' does not work, because it encourages immoral behavior in women, which eventually wears down even the durable chivalry of beta men, making both genders worse off. It is no secret that single motherhood is heavily subsidized, but it is less understood that single spinsterhood is also heavily subsidized through a variety of unsustainable and unreciprocated means. The default natural solution is for the misandric society to be outcompeted and displaced.
Population Displacement : So we have arrived at a society where 'feminists' feel that they are 'empowered', 'independent', and 'confident', despite being heavily dependent on taxes paid mostly by men, an unconstitutional shadow state that extracts alimony and 'child support' from men, an infrastructure maintained by men, technologies invented by men, and a level of safety that men agree to maintain. So exactly what has society received from this population of women who are the most privileged class of humans ever to have lived?
Now, let me be clear; I believe a woman should get to decide how many children she bears, or even whether or not to have any children at all. However, a childless old woman should not then be able to extract resources from the children of other women. Fair is fair, and the obligation of working-age people to support the elderly should not be socialized in order to subsidize women who chose not to reproduce.
Let us take a hypothetical example of three 20-year-old single women, one who is an urban lefto-'feminist', one who is a rural conservative, and one who is a devout Muslim. The following table charts the parallel timelines of their lives as their ages progress in tandem, with realistic estimates of typical life events. When people talk about falling birth rates in the West, they often fail to account for the additional gap caused by having children at age 23 vs. at age 33. As the table shows, a 1:1:1 ratio of three young ladies takes only 40 years to yield a 12:4:0 ratio of grandchildren. Consider, also, that we are already 20 years into this 40-year process, so each of these women are 40 years old today.
So how do we estimate the value society will ultimately receive from organizing itself in a manner that young women could choose a life of bar-hopping, shopping for $300 purses, and working as government bureaucrats to make the government a more complete husband substitute? If the sight of a pitiful 60-year-old Code Pink harpy lecturing 12 Muslim adolescents that 'gender is a social construct' seems amusing, then let us move on to the macro chart. This world map(click to enlarge) shows how many children under the age of 15 existed in the major countries of the world in 2005 (i.e. born between 1990 and 2005), in proportion to the country with the most children. Notably, Mexico and the US have the same number of children, while Pakistan and Bangladesh each have about as many as all of Western Europe. While developing countries are seeing their fertility rates converge to Western levels, the 1990-2005 births already seal certain realities. Needless to say, if we move time forward just 15 years, the proportions in this chart reflect what the proportions of adults aged 20-35 (the female reproductive years) will be per nation in the year 2025. Even the near future belongs to those who show up.
Lefto-'feminists' will be outbred and replaced very quickly, not by the conservatives that they hate, but by other cultures antithetical to 'feminism'. The state that lefto-'feminists' so admire will quickly turn on them once the state calculates that these women are neither producing new taxpayers nor new technologies, and will find a way to demote them from their present 'empowered' position of entitlement. If they thought having obligations to a husband was such an awful prospect, wait until they have obligations to the husband-substitute state.
The Fabric of Humanity Will Tear
Humans like ourselves have been around for about 100,000 years, and earlier hominids similar to us for another 1-3 million years before that. For the first 99.99% of humanoid existence, the primary purpose of our species was the same as that of every other species that ever existed - to reproduce. Females are the scarcer reproductive resource, since the number of babies that can be produced does not fall even if most men die, but it does fall for each woman that dies (humans did not live much past age 40-45 in the past, as mentioned earlier). For this reason, the human brain continued the evolutionary hardwiring of our ancestors, placing female well-being at a premium while males remain expendable. Since funneling any and all resources to women closely correlated with the survival of children, both men and women evolved to see this status quo as normal. The Female Imperative (FI) was the human imperative.
As human society progressed, priorities adjusted. For one thing, advances in technology and prosperity ensured that child mortality fell from about 50% to very low levels, so 12 births were no longer needed to produce 6 children who reach adulthood. Secondly, as humans moved away from agriculture into a knowledge-based economy, the number of children desired fell, and almost all high and middle-income countries have birth rates lower than 2 as of today, with many women producing zero children. Thirdly, it has become evident that humans are now the first species to produce something more than just offspring; humans now produce technology. As a result, the former direct correlation between funneling resources to women and the survival of children, which was true for 99.99% of our existence, now no longer is.
Yet, our hardwired brains have not adapted to this very recent transformation, and perhaps cannot adapt. Women are programmed to extract resources endlessly, and most men are programmed to oblige. For this once-valid but now obsolete biological reason, society still unquestioningly funnels the vast majority of resources to women. But instead of reaching children, this money now finds its way into consumer products geared towards women, and a shadow state designed to transfer all costs and consequences away from women. Most people consider our existing society to be normal, but they have failed to observe how diverting money to women is now obsolete. In the 21st century, there is no reason for any resource distribution, if there must be one at all, to be distributed in any manner other than 50-50.
Go to any department store or mall. At least 90% of the products present there are ones no ordinary man would consider buying. Yet, they occupy valuable shelf space, which is evidence that those products do sell in volume. Who buys them? Look around in any prosperous country, and we see products geared towards women, paid for by money that society diverted to women. From department store products, to the proliferation of take-out restaurants, to mortgage interest, to a court system rigged to subsidize female hypergamy, all represent the end product of resources funneled to women, for a function women have greatly scaled back. This is the greatest resource misallocation ever, and such malinvestment always results in a correction as the bubble pops.
This is not to suggest that we should go back to birth rates of 12, for that is neither desirable nor necessary. The bigger picture here is that a major aspect of the human psyche is quite obsolete, with men and women both culpable. When this situation corrects, it will be the most disruptive event humanity has ever faced. Some call this a variant of the 'Technological Singularity', which will happen many decades later than 2020, but even prominent thinkers steer clear of any mention of the obvious correction in gender-tilted resource flows that will occur.
The Four Horsemen of Male Emancipation
We earlier examined how the Four Sirens of Feminism unexpectedly combined and provided women with choices they never could have dreamed of before. Some women made positive contributions to society, but quite a few let misandry and unrestrained greed consume them, and have caused the disastrous situation we presently see. Technology always causes disruption in the status quo, always creating new winners and losers with each wave. In centuries past, Gloria Steinem would be a governess and Mystery would be a court jester.
The title of this article is not the 'Misandry Crisis' or even 'The War on Misandry'. It is 'The Misandry Bubble', because the forces that will ensure the demise of the present mistreatment of men are already on the horizon. So allow me to introduce the Four Horsemen of Male Emancipation as a coalescence of many of the forces we have discussed, which will shred the present, unsustainable hierarchal order by 2020 :
1) Game : Learning the truth about how the female mind works is a precious and transcendant body of knowledge for any man. Whether he uses it to become a fully immersed pick-up artist, to create a soulmate bond in a lifelong monogamous marriage, or even to engage in only infrequent yet efficient trysts with women, a man is free from the crushing burdens that uninitiated beta men are capitulating under.
When a man learns that there is no reason for him to buy a $50,000 car, $20,000 ring, $50,000 bridezilla festival, overpriced house contrary to any logical financial analysis, or a divorce lawyer to save him from ruin even though he was the victim of spousal abuse, there is no greater feeling of liberation and jubilation, equating to a windfall of $2 Million for all objective and subjective purposes. When a man realizes that reducing his income by half will now have little detriment to his sexual prospects, he can downsize to an easier job with a shorter commute and lower stress. When a man learns that appeasing a woman is the exact opposite of what he should be doing during the process of romancing and seducing her, that entire humiliating gauntlet of rituals can be jettisoned.
The ecstasy of two or even three concurrent relationships with women of substantially above average beauty are quite attainable to a man who has scaled the summit, which further deprives the hapless betas (again, male attractiveness to women is zero-sum in a way that female attractiveness to men is not). Thus, while 80% of men have no intellectual capacity to grasp and master Game, if the number of solid practitioners even begins to approach 20%, multiple parasitic beasts, from female moochers to the tax-swilling state to the corrupt real-estate and divorce lawyer industries, can be effectively starved.
2) Adult Entertainment Technologies of 2020 : What of the 80% of men who cannot conceptualize or master the core skills of Game? Won't they be condemned to live a life of frustration, humiliation, and near-slavery as second class citizens? Thankfully, these poor souls will experience a satisfactory release through technology, just like women did through technologies such as contraceptive pills, washing machines, and vacuum cleaners.
For a number of reasons, Internet pornography is substantially more addictive to the male brain than the VHS cassette or 'Skinimax' content of the 1990s. When yet another generation of technology diffuses into the market, the implications will be profound enough to tear the current sexual market asunder.
This site has written in the past about how haptic, motion sensing, and graphical technologies would elevate video games to the premier form of entertainment by 2012. 3-D/holographic images with haptic interfaces and sufficient AI will make rudimentary 'virtual sex' a technology available to many men well before 2020, but by 2020 we will see this cross certain thresholds that lead to a dramatic market impact far greater than contraceptive pills and Internet pornography combined. A substantial portion of the male population will drift into addiction to virtual sex without even realizing it.
For those (mostly women) who claim that the VR sex of 2020 would not be a sufficient substitute for the real thing, that drawback is more than superceded by the inescapable fact that the virtual woman would be made to be a 10/10+ in appearance, while the real women that the typical beta male user has access to would be in the 4-7 range. Real 10 > VR 10 > Real 7, making irrelevant the claim that a virtual 10 is not as good as a real 10 (under 1% of all women), when the virtual 10 is really competing with the majority of women who are 7s and lower. Women are unaware how vastly different the male reaction is to a 10 relative to a 7, let alone to women of even lower scores. As single men arrive home from work on Friday evening, they will simply default into their VR immersion, giving a whole new meaning to the concept of 'beta testing'. These sequestered men will be conspicuously absent from the bars and nightclubs that were the former venues of expenditure and frustration, causing many establishments to go out of business. The brains of these men will warp to the extent that they can no longer muster any libido for the majority of real women. This will cause a massive devaluation in the sexual market value of most women, resulting in 8s being treated like 5s, and 35-year-old women unable to attract the interest of even 55-year-old men. The Wile E. Coyote moment for women will move a few years ahead, and the alphas with Game competence will find an even easier field of desperate women to enjoy.
Another technology making advancements in Japan is that of lifelike female robots. I do not believe that 'sexbots' will be practical or economical relative to software/gaming-derived solutions, simply because such a robot is not competitive with VR on cost, privacy, versatility, and upgradeability.
Some 'feminists' are not blind to the cataclysmic sexual devaluation that women will experience when such technologies reach the market, and are already moving to seek bans. Such bans will not be possible, of course, as VR sex technologies are inseparable from broader video game and home theater technologies. Their attempts to lobby for such bans will be instructive, however.
Another positive ramification of advanced adult entertainment technologies is that women will have to sharpen the sole remaining attribute which technology cannot substitute - the capacity to make a man feel loved. Modern women will be forced to reacquaint themselves with this ancient concept in order to generate a competitive advantage. This necessity could lead to a movement of pragmatic women conducting a wholesale repudiation of misandry masquerading as 'feminism' that has created this state of affairs, and thus will be the jolt that benefits both men and women.
3) Globalization : The Third Horseman is a vast subject that contains many subtopics. The common theme is that market forces across the world eventually find a way around legislative fences constructed in any one country :
a) Islam : Aside from the higher birthrates of Muslims living in the same Western cities that 'feminists' reside in, an Achilles heel of leftists in general and misandrists in particular is their unwillingess to confront other cultures that actually do place restrictions on women. In Britain, Islamic courts are now in operation, deciding cases through Sharia principles. British divorce laws are even more misandric than US divorce laws, and so many British men, in desperation, are turning to Sharia courts in order to avoid the ruin that British law would inflict on them. The Islamic courts are more than happy to accomodate these men, and 'feminists' dare not protest too loudly. By driving British men to Sharia courts, misandry is beautifully self-defeating. The irony is that the group that was our enemy in the crisis of the prior decade are now de-facto allies in the crisis of this decade. I do not say this simply because I am a Muslim myself.
b) Expatriation : While America continues to attract the greatest merit and volume of (legal) immigrants, almost every American man who relocates to Asia or Latin America gives a glowing testimonial about the quality of his new life. A man who leaves to a more male-friendly country and marries a local woman is effectively cutting off a total of three parasites in the US - the state that received his taxes, the potential wife who would take his livelihood, and the industries he is required to spend money on (wedding, diamond, real estate, divorce attorney). Furthermore, this action also shrinks the number of available men remaining in America. The misandrists who project their pathology outward by calling such men 'misogynists' are curiously troubled that these same men are leaving the US. Shouldn't 'feminists' be happy if 'misogynists' are leaving? We thus see yet another example of 'feminists' seeking to steal from men while not providing them any benefit in return.
The more unfair a place becomes, the more we see talented people go elsewhere. When word of US divorce laws becomes common in India and China, this might even deter some future taxpayers from immigrating to America, which is yet another reason the government is losing money to misandry.
c) Medical Tourism : The sum total of donor eggs + IVF + surrogacy costs $150,000 or more in the US, but can be done in some countries for just $20,000 at top-quality clinics that are building a strong track record. While most customers of foreign fertility clinics are couples, there have been quite a few single men opting to create their own biological babies this way. While this avenue is not for everyone, the ability to have a child for $20,000 (and even two children in parallel with two different surrogates in a two-for-one bundle deal for $35,000) now exists. The poor surrogate mother in India or the Philippines earns more than she could earn in 10 years in her prior vocation of construction or housecleaning. It is a win-win for everyone involved, except for the Western woman who was priced out of the market for marriage to this man.
Medical tourism also prices the US healthcare system out of contention for certain procedures, and the US healthcare system employs a large number of women, particularly in administrative and bureaucratic roles that pay them over twice what they could make in the private sector. Such women will experience what male manufacturing workers did a generation earlier, despite the increasinglly expensive government bubble that has kept these women's inflated salaries safe for so long.
So as we can see, the forces of globalization are far bigger than those propping up the current lop-sided status quo.
4) Male Economic Disengagement and Resultant Tax-Base Erosion : Earlier passages have highlighted how even the most stridently egomaniacal 'feminist' is heavily dependent on male endeavors. I will repeat again that there will never, ever be a successful human society where men have no incentive to aspire to the full maximum of their productive and entrepreneurial capabilities.
The contract between the sexes has been broken in urban America (although is still in some effect in rural America). The 'progressive' income tax scale in the US was levied under the assumption that men who could earn 10 times more than they needed for themselves would always do so, for their families. A man with no such familial aspirations may choose an easier job at lower pay, costing the state more than he costs himself. Less tax revenue not just means fewer subsidies for single mothers and government jobs for women, but less money for law enforcement. Less tax revenue also means fewer police officers, and fewer court resources through which to imprison men. The 'feminist' hypergamous utopia is not self-financing, but is precariously dependent on every beta man working at his full capacity, without which the government bubble, inseparable from the misandry bubble, collapses. Misandry is thus mathematically impossible to finance for any extended period of time. A state with a small government is far more sustainable than a state seeking an ever-expanding government, which then cannot be financed, and descends into a mass of contradictions that is the exact opposite of what the statists intended. See the gangster capitalism that dominates contemporary Russia.
These Four Horsemen will all converge at the end of this decade to transfer the costs of misandry from men onto women, and on 1/1/2020, we will assess how the misandry bubble popped and the fallout that women are suffering under for having made the mistake of letting 'feminists' control their destiny (update : 1/1/2020 article here). Note that I did not list the emergence of any Men's Rights Movement as one of the Four Horsemen, as this is unlikely to happen for aforementioned reasons.
For those who dispute the Four Horsemen (I'd like to see their track record of predictions to compare against my own), women had their Four Sirens, and now the pendulum has to swing at the same amplitude in the other direction. Keep the Four Horsemen in mind throughout this decade, and remember what you read here on the first day of 2010.
Who Should Care?
As we leave a decade where the prime threat to US safety and prosperity was Islamic terrorism and enter a decade where the prime threat is misandry, anyone concerned with any of the following topics should take heed :
- Anyone with a son, brother, nephew, or mentee entering marriage, particularly without the partial protection of a pre-nuptial agreement. As described earlier, he can be ruined, separated from his children, and jailed in a manner few would suspect could happen in any advanced democracy. The suicide rate of divorced men is shockingly high.
- Anyone who agrees that a civilization where most adults are part of two-parent families will always outcompete and displace a civilization where a large portion of adults are not leading two-parent families.
- Anyone with minor grandchildren, nieces and nephews, or great-grandchildren. The divorce laws incentivize using children as pawns during divorce, and no serious thinker can dispute the trouble that haunts the children of divorce for years thereafter. 'Feminists' concoct bogus research about the role of the father being superfluous, but observation of real-world examples proves otherwise.
- Anyone who owns an expensive home in a community of families. The growing aversion of men for marriage will create fewer new families, and thus fewer buyers for those homes. I remind everyone that if they have 20% equity in their home and an 80% mortgage, even a 20% decline in home prices is a 100% decline in your equity, which might be all of your net worth. Detroit, the first major US city to see a loss of beta male employment prospects, saw the average home price drop from $98,000 as recently as 2003 to just $14,000 today. A decline smaller than this would devastate the net worth of remaining home owners, and can happen in any community of single-family homes. If you own a home, your net worth is inseparably tied to the formation and preservation of two-parent families.
- Anyone concerned about rising crime. 72% of African American children are born to single mothers, and the number among white children is approaching 30%. Furthermore, the 'mancession' will eventually ensure that the only means of survival for many men is to form gangs and take valuables by force. Unloved men, who in the past would have been paired with wives, are easy for both gangs and terrorist organizations to recruit.
- Anyone concerned about the widening federal and state budget shortfalls and medicare/healthcare costs, for which the state continues to insist on raising taxes rather than cut spending. Fewer men choosing to work the long hours needed to earn high incomes will break the model of the top 10% paying 75% of taxes, and more men being jailed for alimony arrears, not being good enough in bed, or defending himself from spousal violence will drain tax coffers. It costs $60,000 a year to maintain a prisoner.
- Anyone who thinks the US Constitution is a valuable document. 'Innocent until proven guilty' does not apply in many areas of feminist-heavy law. The previously discussed shadow state is using 'feminism' to conduct all sorts of horrible tyranny against innocent men, which greatly compromises America's ability to claim that it is still the land of the free.
- Anyone concerned about national security. As more men feel that this society is betraying him, fewer will risk their lives in the military only to find that divorce lawyers have been persuading his wife to leave the marriage while he is deployed. Coming home from one battlefield only to be inserted in another is a shameful betrayal of our finest young men. Furthermore, I have already mentioned how British men are turning to Islamic courts in the hopes avoiding ruin at the hands of British misandrist laws. Quite a few men may conclude that Islam offers them more than their native society that has turned against their gender, and will act towards self-preservation.
- Any woman who is appalled by the treatment of any woman who deviates from 'feminist' doctrine, and who is troubled by the words and actions of self-proclaimed 'feminists' today. If you believe that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, you should worry about what 'feminists' are courting by kicking a friendly dog too many times.
- Lastly, anyone with a young daughter or sister, who is about to enter a world where it is much harder for all but the most beautiful women to marry, where the costs of crazed 'feminism' are soon going to be transferred away from men and onto women, even if she had no interest in this doctrine of hate. As stated in the Executive Summary at the start, 'feminists' are leading average women into the abyss.
I could list even more reasons to care, but the point is clear. The biggest challenge of the decade is summarized before us.
Update (7/1/2012) : On this day, July 1, 2012, exactly 25% of the decade described in this article has passed. I did not include a poll on the original launch date of 1/1/2010, as the concepts described here were too radical for the majority of readers. But now that these ideas have become more mainstream, I can include a simple poll on the subject of whether we are indeed in a Misandry Bubble (poll closed after 60 days).
Conclusion
I am just an observer, and will not become an activist of any sort, although, as described earlier, being an 'inactivist' is also powerful. As a Futurist, I have to predict things before they become obvious to everyone else. Regular readers know of this website's track record of predictions being accurate, and heed my words when I say that the further inflation and subsequent precipitous deflation of the misandry bubble will define the next American decade. So here, on the first day of the '201x' decade, I am unveiling the article that will spawn a thousand other articles.
As mentioned at the top, what you have just finished reading is the equivalent of someone in 1997 predicting the entire War on Terror in vivid detail. The level of detail I have provided about the collapse of the Misandry Bubble will unfold with comparable accuracy as when my co-blogger predicted the real estate bubble two years beforehand, and the exact level the stock market would bottom at, 6 months before the fact. Similarly, misandry is the premier cultural bubble of this age.
This website has predicted that the US will still be the only superpower in 2030, but I am not so sure, so I will introduce a caveat that US vitality by 2030 is contingent on a satisfactory and orderly unwinding of the Misandry Bubble. It remains to be seen which society can create economic prosperity while still making sure both genders are treated well, and the US is currently not on the right path in this regard. For this reason, I am less confident about a smooth deflation of the Misandry Bubble. Deflate it will, but it could be a turbulent hurricane. Only rural America can guide the rest of the nation into a more peaceful transition. Britain, however, may be beyond rescue.
I want to extend my thanks to Instapundit, Dr. Helen, Kim du Toit, The Spearhead, RooshV, and many others for their support of this article.
Required Reading :
Democrats and Republicans Unite to Form Misandry Party
The Sixteen Commandments of Game
The Medicalization of Maleness
The Feminist War on Everything Civilized
Feminist Gulag : No Prosecution Necessary
Decivilizing : Human Nature Unleashed
Note on Comments : As Typepad only allows 100 comments per page, here is a direct link to page nine, where you can comment.
Just because I linked to a particular blog does NOT mean that I endorse all of the other views of that author. Are 'feminists' all willing to be responsible for all of the extremism that any other feminist utters (note that I have provided links to 'feminists' openly calling for slavery, castration, and murder of men without proving him guilty of anything)? Also, you will see Pavlovian use of the word 'misogyny' dozens upon dozens of times, so remember what I wrote about the importance of not taking that at face value, as it is merely a manifestation of projected misandry, as well as a defense mechanism to avoid taking responsibility for genuine wrongdoings of 'feminists'.
Stellar.
Posted by: Eumaios | January 01, 2010 at 08:17 AM
Impressive and comprehensive overview of the issues facing men and society in general.
The cultural portion is a bit iffy...I know what you were getting at but cable programming makes what looks like a loss of manliness in entertainment a bit muddier. Perhaps the difference is in how we "officially" respond to what feminists call "hyper-masculinity" in entertainment, in terms of reviews, education and public discourse.
Posted by: Jack Donovan | January 01, 2010 at 09:18 AM
Agreed. A very comprehensive summation. One part I thought you didn't cover as fully as needed (although I may have missed it) is the link between feminist enabled single motherhood, and the rise in violent crime and subsequent quadrupling of the level of incarceration since 1980 in your country. IMO they are very closely linked, and yet another way in which the fruits and cost of feminism and leftist values are crippling to even the largest of economies.
Posted by: tspoon | January 01, 2010 at 09:59 AM
Extremely interesting! I have long thought the feminist agenda was counterproductive to the long term best interests of women....but their treatment of Sarah Palin in particular has exposed their agenda for what it really is: far left.
Posted by: Jilly | January 01, 2010 at 01:19 PM
Jack, tspoon,
All good feedback. I am tweaking that content as suggestions arrive.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 01, 2010 at 02:42 PM
Brilliant and well worth the wait.
I second the comment regarding a request for expanding on the topic of feminist-enabled single motherhood.
Minor point 1: maybe you could point out (with a link) how women in very patriarchal societies are just as happy, if not more so, than women in Western societies.
Minor point 2: a reference to Longman's article in your text and in your required reading list is probably a propos given your characterization of the current situation as a bubble that cannot last
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2006/the_return_of_patriarchy .
It's not strictly the same thing, given the current bubble popping largely due to technology (e.g., VR) and its derivatives (e.g., easy, cheap international travel and portable capital) as opposed to pure demographics. But the past is instructive nevertheless.
Once again, congratulations on a stellar job.
Posted by: Thucydides | January 01, 2010 at 03:03 PM
Fantastic! You covered nearly every point I could think of...I am a bit afraid of what will happen when the bubble actually pops, but it's going to be an interesting time to be sure...
Posted by: Natural One | January 01, 2010 at 03:29 PM
"Many women, and even a few pathetic men, condemn the Game, without even gaining a minimal comprehension for what it truly is, and how it benefits both men and women."
It benefits some men and some women, but not society as a whole. Gamists enable and encourage bad women (i.e. sluts and women who go around "testing" men) and their bad behavior, because that's all game is good for and used for. Game is deceptive and manipulative social engineering, and inherently unethical. Game does not work against the forces that are disintegrating Western civilization, it work WITH them. Game is an adaptive response to the bad behavior of women. Instead of leading by example and refusing to enable bad women, gamists work around the clock to satisfy their every whim and approve of their behavior. How is any of this good for society? For someone who's supposedly worried about society, you seem awfully quick to align yourself with forces that are seeking to destroy it.
"But, unimaginably, it gets even worse. Polls of men have shown that there is one thing men fear even more than being raped themselves, and that is being cuckolded."
The whole reason why these men claim they fear cuckoldry more than rape is because they seek to trivialize rape. The difference between cuckoldry and rape is like the difference between a small cut and an amputated limb. They're not even in the same league. So what happens when you claim cuckoldry is worse than rape? You communicate that rape isn't that big of a deal. This is perfectly consistent with the way so-called men's rights activists frequently downplay and even justify rape.
roissy's disciples also aren't a valid representation of men as a whole. You might as well determine that 100% of men are criminals because you polled prisoners.
"1) Game : Learning the truth about how the female mind works is a precious and transcendant body of knowledge for any man."
If you learn the truth according to gamists, is that supposed to be a cause for celebration? Gamists are burned out misogynists BECAUSE they discovered the "truth." What they didn't discover, however, were selection and confirmation bias. That's too bad, since gamists have the habit of scraping the bottom of the barrel and ignoring warning signs when looking for women.
"Thus, while 80% of men have no intellectual capacity to grasp and master the concept of Game--"
Being a womanizing douchebag is not some grand achievement requiring an exceptional mind, or even an above average mind. Try science and engineering if you want something that requires intelligence. If that isn't too "beta" for you.
"What of the 80% of men who cannot conceptualize Game? Won't they be condemned to live a life of frustration, humiliation, and occasional thoughts of suicide? Thankfully, these poor wretches--"
Do you have some particular reason for constantly attacking and insulting non-gamists, or is this just typical PUA hubris that is based on exactly nothing? Also, do you think that next time when you write a puff piece for game you could simply say so instead of wasting people's time by pretending to be concerned about society?
Posted by: bleh | January 01, 2010 at 04:42 PM
Impressive. Thanks for taking the time to put together the arguments, the links, and the graphics. Much food for thought.
Posted by: Al Fin | January 01, 2010 at 05:00 PM
I have a problem with at least one of your examples of 80s masculinity. An episode of The Cosby Show I saw was one of the worst examples of feminist claptrap I have ever seen, with Mrs Cosby humiliating a young man for expecting a traditional wife, and Cosby himself joining in - a total "mangina". Look at the picture above - he looks like a complete wimp.
And for modern examples, what about the lead male in the "Crank" films? His girlfriend is a very feminine, to the point of absurdity.
The new Star Trek is noteworthy for its lack of political correctness. All the main characters are men, presented positively. The only noteworthy female character is the black female (Uhura?), who is mainly notable for wearing a very short uniform and having nothing to do except look "hot". The actress herself is clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and was not chosen for her brains.
As to new characters, what about House MD? He is a total male chauvinist, regularly demeans and ignores his female boss, and averred at one point that, "if it were not for political correctness, no-one would choose a female doctor", or some such remark.
I don't doubt that times are tough for men, but cherrypicking bad examples does not prove a case. I could also point to the reported regular failure of movies with "strong female leads".
I know there are bad examples, and I'm an Australian so maybe things are different here, but in my observation it is still very much a "phallocentric" world and I have been amazed at the recent TV advertisements, in which women are very much back in the kitchen. I have no problem with that, just commenting.
Oh, and don't forget adult cartoons like Family Guy. The man behind that is supposed to be a left liberal, but the cartoon is full of very funny misogyny.
Posted by: David | January 01, 2010 at 05:05 PM
Great stuff. I'm gonna have to re-read this several times over the next week to let it all sink in.
Posted by: Krauser | January 01, 2010 at 05:43 PM
David,
On the Cosby Show, the father (of five) was still respected by all the children, who cared deeply about his approval. The wife, while bossy, still had a positive relationship with the husband, rather than one where the husband was inferior. Dr. Huxtable was a 'pillar of the community' by any measure. Given the state of African Americans today (which Bill Cosby himself is presently condemning), this is an extremely good example.
We can split hairs and say the Macho Man suffered from 'oneitis' and the A-Team from 'whiteknighting' too, but there is no comparison between the 80s and today.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 01, 2010 at 06:49 PM
bleh,
What a shallow, dishonest, and lazy interpretation of the article.
You have proved my pre-emptive description of 'feminists' and 'whiteknights' superbly.
And trying to rationalize cuckoldry (which IS worse than rape for a man) shows that you are full of projection.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 01, 2010 at 07:23 PM
"What a shallow, dishonest, and lazy interpretation of the article."
This is ironic because it's *your* response that's shallow and lazy. You have nothing substantial to say.
"You have proved my pre-emptive description of 'feminists' and 'whiteknights' superbly."
How? I'm neither.
"And trying to rationalize cuckoldry (which IS worse than rape for a man) shows that you are full of projection."
You are imagining things. I did not rationalize or defend it in any way, I merely said that it isn't anywhere near as bad as rape. Any man who claims cuckoldry is worse than rape is either insane, ignorant or purposefully downplaying rape.
Posted by: bleh | January 01, 2010 at 08:37 PM
bleh,
Are you a man or a woman?
Posted by: The Futurist | January 01, 2010 at 08:43 PM
The Futurist:
"The wife, while bossy, still had a positive relationship with the husband, rather than one where the husband was inferior."
David: Yes, I see your point. But I remember the episode I refer to well, and I remember thinking that if anything was going to turn young black men off getting married, it was the message conveyed by the withering contempt for the young black man who had hoped to find a wife who would treat him with traditional respect, deference and kindness. No young black man with any balls would be attracted to the prospect held out by the attitudes of Dr and Mrs Huxtable. "Dr Huxtable" made it clear that any man who married his daughter would be expected to provide meals for her on demand when she got back from her day at her "career job". I think that was the single most offensive, feminist load of drivel I have ever seen.
BTW, rape is appalling, but cuckolding a man is very bad too, and also has lasting ill effects.
Posted by: David | January 01, 2010 at 09:07 PM
The Futurist, I am a man.
Posted by: bleh | January 01, 2010 at 09:48 PM
David,
Yes, I know of that episode. There were times when the daughters were scolded for the equivalent too, however.
But that aside, the father was still a 'pillar of the community' in the show. The grandfather was treated well by the grandmother, etc. Other white 80s family sitcoms also had the father command some patriarchal authority, even if some jokes were at his expense.
Today, even the children do not respect the father, in television shows, while a single mother is glorified.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 01, 2010 at 09:58 PM
The Futurist,
I'm unclear on how your "Four Horsemen of Male Emancipation" are supposed to lead to a reversal in the trend towards misandry.
I grant you these trends exist. But I don't think you've demonstrated that A leads to B.
My reading of your four trends...
1) Game
2) VR porn
3) Globalization
4) Economic dissengagement
...would be that all these lead to a decline in the power and value assigned to western women. To the extent that men become enlightened about the situation they are facing, they will be less inclined to support women financially, less inclined to spend time with them and pursue them, less inclined to cede them power.
OK. But I fail to see how the bubble pops etc. Calling it a bubble suggests it is unsustainable. So point out the point of failure. What actually forces women to change their behaviour, bearing in mind their predigious powers of denial?
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result, and feminists are insane, won't they just try harder as they fail harder? If it doesn't work, do more.
So the response to disengagement by men will be to blame men for their fear of committment, selfishness, laziness, withdrawal from reality etc.
...
I can see a subculture of women who rediscover the joys of baking cookies in their quest to make themselves more appealing to the dwindling number of suitable husbands, but it this likely to impact the dominant culture?
Posted by: ThousandmileMargin | January 01, 2010 at 10:33 PM
bleh,
Your behavior is already described in the section 'Socialcons, WhiteKnights, and Girlie-Men', as well as my observation about overuse of the word 'misogynist'. You are demonstrating that exactly, rather than disproving this. Hence, you are yet to refute anything in the article.
Claiming that cuckolding is not nearly as bad as rape is insane, particularly given that 80% of men take the opposite view, as the polls show.
Oh, I suppose you explain that by claiming those 80% of men have rape urges
I dare you to go to The Spearhead and make this claim about cuckoldry.
If you still haven't figured out that propagating anti-male hogwash in order to appease feminists is NOT going to get you laid, you are beyond hopeless.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 01, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Thousandmilemargin,
There will be too few tax dollars to prop up feminism, and too few men willing to marry. Technologies will devalue what women have to offer, and hence their expectations have to come down greatly. Cultures that are more gender normative will outbreed the feminists.
The 'if it doesn't work, do more' can't continue when the tax revenue needed to do it is not forthcoming.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 01, 2010 at 10:39 PM
The Futurist said..
"There will be too few tax dollars to prop up feminism, and too few men willing to marry. Technologies will devalue what women have to offer, and hence their expectations have to come down greatly. Cultures that are more gender normative will outbreed the feminists.
The 'if it doesn't work, do more' can't continue when the tax revenue needed to do it is not forthcoming. "
I would suggest another article to spell this out. I hear this argument frequently - I'm not convinced. It assumes rational actors and a self-correcting system.
I'm particularly sceptical about the idea that there will be too few tax dollars to prop up feminism (the welfare state).
For example, I'm saving and investing as much as I can so I can expat. So in the medium term, I'm working harder and am more focused than I otherwise would be. I may be socially disengaged, but I'm not economically disengaged. So cynicism on my part had not led to any drop in tax revenue.
Besides, how much of government spending comes from tax vs borrowing or QE? When was the last time the USA balanced a budget?
I think you need to specifically point out how the lack of a tax base will lead to a CHANGE IN BEHAVOUR rather than assuming it will.
Posted by: ThousandmileMargin | January 01, 2010 at 10:52 PM
The Futurist,
Also, I don't think men lose the desire to make money if there isn't a woman in their life. The desire for money, power, success and status evolved in order to help men compete for women, but it is now a drive in its own right. There's a lot to be said for being wealthy even if you never touch another girl in your life - it lets you go places and do things.
At a more basic level, I was poor in my student days and would never want to go back to eating 2-minute noodles. Earning a decent income allows a level of comfort and independance that will be become ever more important as I get older. I have to think about providing for myself in retirement.
So I don't think it is accurate to say that men without the prospect of wives become demotivated. The threat of punitive taxation may do this - but if the goverment lets you keep most of your earnings, men will still be motivated to earn without women.
No money, no life.
Posted by: ThousandmileMargin | January 01, 2010 at 11:04 PM
The Futurist,
Another point. Women are only interested in the winners. They may settle for a Beta at 35, but that doesn't change the culture amongst women under 30 and the men who pursue them.
Do you forsee a change in the behaviour of Alpha men as a result of your four trends? Or will Alphas just keep playing the field as before?
Do you see the top 10% of men, those women are focused on, abandoning women for VR porn, or expating, or using surrogate mothers, or dropping out of the workforce? Or are these trends among men that aren't in the race anyway?
Posted by: ThousandmileMargin | January 01, 2010 at 11:10 PM
1000Mile,
Your expatriation itself does a huge amount to starve the system, as described in the article. US wedding, real estate, divorce lawyer industries are all starved, so you are cutting off 3 parasites at once.
On the income issue, you are thinking in absolutes. Many men who work 80 hours a week for $300K will go down to 50 hours a week for $150K. Many men working very hard are doing so to prop up their mortgages, for homes larger than they ever wanted, but the wife insisted on. It is socially normal for the man to kill himself to buy an unusually large house.
but if the goverment lets you keep most of your earnings
But if the government does this, feminism is what gets thrown under the bus (subsidies for single mothers, public sector bogus jobs, etc.).
You are answering some of your own questions.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 01, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Thousandmile Margin,
The US already is in debt to the tune of 75 trillion. There is a recession. Taxes are already at the point where raising them further will result in a decrease in revenue, due to the fact of disencouraging further effort from taxpayers.
Your country has just signed up to expensive universal health care, further subsidising females at the cost to males. Your country does not educate or motivate males. Those males are worse than non productive, they become violent, costing huge amounts in increased policing and incarceration. This is further contributed to by single motherhood, which is tacitly encouraged, and costs even further. Your countries stimulus package was wasted on nonproductive sectors of employment.
although you are saving hard now, you will likely be ready to leave before ten years are out. (where to btw?) Many other men will be in the same boat.
This is only some of the things leading to massive inefficiency in the US economy, and even a country of the greatness and magnitude of the US can not continue like this for much longer...
Posted by: tspoon | January 01, 2010 at 11:16 PM
I'd say you've confused "manly" with "masculine"... half of those role models from the 80's are EMASCULATED MEN. Take Cosby for instance, his Feminist wife rules their home. This is a great shame to his masculinity which is almost non-existent.
For a more thorough treatise on masculinity, please check out: http://manhood101.com/principles101small.pdf
But much of our article has a lot of great information. I will try to look it over and post the relevant parts in our "Exposing Feminism" section on our forum over at manhood101.com
Thank you for your work!
Posted by: Mcsmiley Smileyface | January 01, 2010 at 11:33 PM
The Futurist "Your behavior is already described in the section 'Socialcons, WhiteKnights, and Girlie-Men', as well as my observation about overuse of the word 'misogynist'."
This is rather unlikely since I am neither a social conservative, a white knight nor a girly man. Perhaps you are just confused. And I say gamists are misogynists because that's just what they are.
"Claiming that cuckolding is not nearly as bad as rape is insane, particularly given that 80% of men take the opposite view, as the polls show."
I have already explained why they take the opposite view. It has nothing to do with cuckoldry truthfully being worse than rape, or even equal to it.
"Oh, I suppose you explain that by claiming those 80% of men have rape urges"
People in PUA and MRA sites often downplay and justify rape, and nobody minds.
"If you still haven't figured out that propagating anti-male hogwash in order to appease feminists is NOT going to get you laid, you are beyond hopeless. "
I'm not anti-male, I'm not appeasing feminists and I have no interest in getting laid. I'm also struggling to understand how I could possibly get laid by anonymously posting comments on a website. Could you explain how that's supposed to work?
Posted by: bleh | January 01, 2010 at 11:54 PM
bleh,
The amount of money and time and resources lost due to cuckoldry far outweighs anything lost due to rape. It's simple to do the equation. In most cases, women do not even become pregnant from rape, therefore very little is lost other than psychological damage. In cuckoldry, huge amounts of time, money as well as psychological damage is incurred. Cuckoldry could be compared to being raped at least 1000 times, over the course of 10-20 years, with the guarantee that you are going to have the rapists baby and raise it using your own time and money. That's the equivalent.
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I agree that PUAs are scum and actually just as bad as the women they pursue. This is where I take issue with this article. Game is definitely not the answer - the answer is to ignore women completely. Do not give them attention, do not game them, do not pursue them in any way. Sex is worthless and should be treated as such.
Using game and PUA tactics is just adapting to women's current behavior instead of changing that behavior. If we want real lasting change in women's behavior, we must ignore them completely, similar to a strike. A woman's main goal in life is to achieve attention, and if you starve them of attention, they will do anything to get it - including changing their behavior in a direction that is more stable and in line with what the author has described - womanly behavior that will lead to a stable civilization.
Posted by: Natural One | January 02, 2010 at 12:15 AM
Natural One "...therefore very little is lost other than psychological damage."
And it's that psychological damage that makes rape infinitely more devastating than cuckoldry. To equate rape with cuckoldry is nothing more than an attempt to trivialize and downplay it. That's all it is.
Posted by: bleh | January 02, 2010 at 12:45 AM
bleh,
Why do you say that rape is more psychologically damaging than cuckoldry? That doesn't make sense to me...
Posted by: Natural One | January 02, 2010 at 01:14 AM
This "bleh" faggot seems to think that cuckoldry does not carry psychological damage. Sounds like a cuckold who is telling himself the feminist 'non-biological parenting is also important' tripe.
Sounds like someone Roissy should nominate as Beta of the Year.
Posted by: Joshua | January 02, 2010 at 01:15 AM
Natural One "Why do you say that rape is more psychologically damaging than cuckoldry? That doesn't make sense to me..."
Then you are either dangerously ignorant or there is something seriously wrong with your brain.
Joshua "This "bleh" faggot seems to think that cuckoldry does not carry psychological damage."
Really? Please point out where I said that.
"Sounds like a cuckold who is telling himself the feminist 'non-biological parenting is also important' tripe."
Uh, I'm not married? And not everyone cares whether their child is biologically theirs, or even of the same ethnicity. I've never seen that as important or meaningful.
"Sounds like someone Roissy should nominate as Beta of the Year."
Yes, I am familiar with roissy's beta antics. Too bad the game community - or even just roissy's sector of it - has never managed to decide what beta actually means. There's no commonly accepted definition for it, so to say that someone is a beta is absolutely meaningless.
Posted by: bleh | January 02, 2010 at 01:49 AM
Bleh,
The threat of cuckholdry will keep men from committing to women or getting married. Think about it. Throughout history and across cultures there has been an obsession with FEMALE virginity and chastity. Not male virginity and chastity but female chastity. Many men practiced polygamy and had mistresses. Women didn't seem to mind. Even in today's Western feminist-dominated society the exact same thing goes on. A few PUA's get all the women and most rarely get laid. Women don't mind sharing. The reason for this is that women always know they're the mother of their children. Men never know if they're the biological father or not. "Bleh", and every feminist and "enlightened male" may say that paternity doesn't matter. But if they really believe that garbage then they are living in a fantasy world. Men will generally not want to commit to women if they can't guarantee their children's paternity. A normal decent, responsible man will break his back for his own children. He'll work a job he doesn't particularly like, buy a home he wouldn't otherwise buy, and pay taxes he wouldn't otherwise be paying. But he just won't do that for some other man's kids. Children are a huge investment that offer few rewards. You just can't expect men to start taking care of random children from other men. It won't happen.
Posted by: Yeah | January 02, 2010 at 06:42 AM
is the article suggesting that i as a woman had an unfair advantage in life to achieve my current income level/job status?
i supported myself as a teen and put myself through school working with my hands for small contractors/companies, none of which could have afforded to have a non-productive woman around to satisfy "numbers" for sake of employment equity.
i agree that the laws asume the woman to be the victim in cases of domestic disputes. this puts innocent men at a terrible dissadvantage. my own mother accused my father of assault in a spat. the police did not allow her to retract her statements and pursued charges anyway. i strongly disagree with this. i think what she did was very low. i currently care for my aging father, who i respect for his principles regardless of our differences. these laws exist to protect the weak, and if women are typically lower income earners then it is very difficult for them to pursue another person legally for wrong-doing, if wrong is done to them.
i dissagree that women in north america have some special status as in the media we are still valued for our appearance/sexuality. this makes us objects for someones sexual gratification. how is a man's desire to bed me of anyadvantage for me. it's an impediment/terrifying to think i have no value after 29, since i couldn't possibly contribute to society in any other way. the dominant women in the tv programs described are only so because their husbands are so stupid. this is not an homage to women but a mockery of the north american man. i hope the average man is not as stupid a peter griffin/homer simpson. cant comment on oprah. never watched talk shows.
re: women being underpaid relative to men. this is true because we rarely have the opportunities to get the same job. if we are products of our environment and as women never develop certain skillsets because we are discouraged as children, how can we contribute as adults? my father involved me in everything he did so i could learn. i have better job opportunities as a result. some women i know were not so lucky. the learning curve as an adult- to learn everything a boy had the chance to -is far too great for a person who now needs to work for a living. also, many of them had children/are married and did so too early because it was socially more valuable that what i was doing with my life. at the time they were praised for their choices (marriage, children, not pursuing means to greater income). they now cannot for sake of time/money pursue these things. they regret it i assure you. their mid-class families would have been far better off financially if they could have returned to better payin jobs after their young children began attending school.
i look at the stats and information provided in this article and can only argue that statistics are not self explanatory. one could argue very different reasons for the same information. i dont dispute that assuming one group to be victims doesnt victimize some of the other group. but the same culd be said for landlord tennant laws etc. assuming one group has the advantage finacially/socially is based on STATS and their interpretation, likely the same that the article was based on.
i feel for those of you being victimized by the system. i have also been a victim, not as a woman, but as a poor white... as a tennant... a low wage employee. at the time i was these the system did nothing to protect me. i suffered and i tolerated constant loss of everything and starting over. and now that i am a landlord, an amployer, the laws ahve reversed again to my disadvantage. but i say to myself that i would never impose the same suffering on a weaker person(by this i mean low income/low opportunity...whatever the dissadvntage). i can afford to lose something now. i would not bend the laws to spare myself any discomfort from an abusive tennant for instance, because i know many other weaker people would be abused. i am strong enough to tolerate some abuse.
also, many people pick their partners for all the wrong reasons. if a man believes all women are low (childlike/petty) he may ignore all character flaws an choose a partner he finds very attractive. are you then surprised when things go sour? now the dumb princess he's tired of sleeping with and treats like dirt is upset because hes neglecting her. and the bull-sh-- starts,and they separate, and maybe she is petty, he picked her remember. he couldve been smarter than that. that is his decision. i know lots of guys that have done this. they complain about their situation, but admit the pussy was good...at the time. guess it was worth it to them. not to say that men necessarily put themselves in this position. but it happens. alot. they dont admit it in court/public. just at the pub after a few. sometimes to me on the phone in tears cause they know what the rest of the guys would say to them.
im sorry to the men that have been abused. im sorry that youve never known a good woman/person. dont think women are your problem or the cause of social problems. conicidental statistics are not proof.
please see this website for a neat graph of statistical evidence for global warming and you'll get my drift.
http://www.venganza.org/
Posted by: Whatsitmatter? | January 02, 2010 at 07:35 AM
I'm going to read this, and the sources cited, a few more times before I comment more. Thanks for the work.
Posted by: Pat | January 02, 2010 at 09:39 AM
What you are describing and opposed to is COMMUNISM, not FEMINISM. I am a capitalist. I worked for what I have. There is no feeling of entitlement on my part because I am a woman, but an increase in my earnings because I am more capable. I have never received any special privilege, nor do I expect it be given to an unworthy person. If all she can do is cook and fuck, she should be compensated accordingly. You as well man.
What's for dinner?
Posted by: Nameis | January 02, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Women shop more than men.
Women may not have disposable income if not for a man.
Majority of US GDP's are brands, few commodities.
Women are more likely to buy brands than things of actual value.
Welfare takes money from the middle class and gives it to Walmart shoppers.
Walmart's doing pretty well no?
Misandry is not the real problem.
Posted by: WTF | January 02, 2010 at 10:40 AM
TO: The Futurist, et al.
RE: Heh
Good points.
However, I doubt if anything significant will happen until we, as a people, are knocked to our knees and have to rebuild from the ground up.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The feminist movement died, one millisecond after the first impact. -- Niven and Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer]
Posted by: Chuck Pelto | January 02, 2010 at 11:58 AM
TO: Whatsitmatter
RE: In a Word?
"Yes".
And your point here is?????
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Woman, n., The unfair sex. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary c. 19th Century]
P.S. The point being the problem has ALWAYS been with US.
Posted by: Chuck Pelto | January 02, 2010 at 12:04 PM
P.S. Where did you learn 'capitalization', anyway?
Posted by: Chuck Pelto | January 02, 2010 at 12:05 PM
White women went along with affirmative action -- even though it hurt white men -- because they wanted the advantage in admissions, hiring, and contracting that affirmative action gave them.
Splitting white males from white females in that manner was a "divide and conquer" strategy that has paid off well for leftists and feminists.
Posted by: Al Fin | January 02, 2010 at 12:21 PM
I am a historiann who wrote two theses on women in history, one on the seventeenth and one on the nineteenth century. I admire your essay but I think you have left out the role of voluntary celibacy in the West, for women, and the effect of worship of the feminine archetype {the virgin Mary, the Courts of Love] on the idea of women Western men still have. This is in spite of the last 40 years, which have seen a vast revolution as you aptly describe. Many men and women in the past were servants and spent a lifetime unmarried but possibly not chaste. North America, Australia with the possibility of economic success even on a humble scale made it possible for almost everyone to marry. As a woman of 75 I see us going backward to the very divided class society of the late middle ages in Europe.
Very interesting!
Posted by: Arabel | January 02, 2010 at 12:26 PM
TO: Arabel
RE: Yeah?
Non sequitur. Unless you're thinking of 'the Pill'.
Or are you totally ignorant of modern 'feminine culture', a la Madonna, Britney Spears and the other literal 'f---ing idiots' out there?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. -- Proverbs, c. 940 BC]
Posted by: Chuck Pelto | January 02, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Wonderful and comprehensive, since it's everything I've come to believe having been rung out thru the system a time or two for no fault of my own.
Sometimes it does take a foreigner to see things clearly, and woe be unto a foreigner that entangles himself with secular marriage. Man and boy should be directed to read these revelations and if need be, tatooed on their privates so as to avoid being victimized by the gov't and officers of the court that must find the source of masculine productivity to first disparage and then exploit and ultimately destroy.
Posted by: red pill | January 02, 2010 at 01:16 PM
Excellent. Bravissimo.
I'm 52, divorced, no kids, and I've given up on the entire "racket," which is what marriage has become. I was fortunate, however, to get out of my marriage scot free, and I was the one who initiated it, so that puts me into two enviable minorities, I guess.
I meet so many profoundly miserable married men, and I used to be one of them, so I'll never go back. If we want to change this, the first step IMO would be to break the legal monopoly. Lawyers make the laws, lawyers judge the cases, lawyers prosecute the citizenry, and we're forced to hire one to defend ourselves. How is that not a racket? How is that not a monopoly? Why is it not illegal for lawyers to serve as judges and legislators? Isn't having lawyers as legislators a violation of the separation of powers between government branches since they are officers of the courts? If not, it ought to be, and we must, "make it so," as Picard would say.
Oh yeah, lawyers make the laws up to suit themselves, and at the expense of the citizenry. Lawyers create nothing, lawyers produce nothing, and lawyers provide no essential service that a man can't live without, and yet we give these deleterious parasites the keys to the kingdom.
That is insane and it is culturally suicidal.
Posted by: Hucbald | January 02, 2010 at 01:45 PM
why do you write "salespeople" instead of "salesmen" ? Aren't you taking a chapter right out of the politically correct playbook of leftist academia?
Posted by: Bo | January 02, 2010 at 02:14 PM
Also a small point of possible differing interpretation from another futurist (me) with a few established bonafides of my own.
Perhaps I over interpret or incorrectly interpret your passing mention of gay marriage. Perhaps I see more harm in redefinition of the family unit than you, but I see no appropriate self perpetuating mechanism within gay culture, there never having been a successful gay culture and a culture which seems at its base to seek conflict and undermine heterosexual culture if for no other reason than natural human competitiveness with the "other". It is in great degree the province of feminism to promote choice paid for by others and producing nothing, which, if one judges something by the company it keeps, should look for signs of social benefit from homosexual union legalization. In actuality gay unions are much more about demands of enforced access to benefits provided by otherw in spite of lifestyles which often are self serving or social destructive, and as such the very thing feminism demands, a responsibility-free party with someone else paying the bill and taking all responsibility.
Best Regards, I look forward to reading your other works, the degree of objectivity, integration and perception having become rare amongst internet offerings. Should you have interest in comparing observations and timeframes etc feel free to drop me a line.
Posted by: red pill | January 02, 2010 at 02:16 PM
A wonderful article, Mr. Futurist! I would be interested to hear your views on the interaction between the denormalization of male behavior and the increase in ADHD and autism diagnoses (particularly Asperger's Syndrome diagnoses), and the trends appertaining thereto. Autism diagnoses are on the rise, though not entirely due to increased diagnostic detection of the milder Asperger's Syndrome. At the same time our schools' definition of what constitutes a "normal" child is shrinking and their flexibility to accommodate a normal but unusual child is calcifying, so that parents must seek a diagnosis in order to get their child any kind of accommodation at school, even ones as simple as allowing the child to sit on a special cushion or leave the classroom if he becomes enraged.
Posted by: Wacky Hermit | January 02, 2010 at 02:21 PM
red pill,
I would agree, except that the laws governing marriage make it extremely tempting for a woman to destroy the union, and this is a more direct threat to traditional marriage than gay marriage. Gay marriage affects less than 0.1% of the population, but rampant divorce and unfair asset division affects ALL people. Therefore, pro-marriage people should tackle divorce laws as a priority higher than gay marriage, but I never see conservatives even uttering a single word about it (also for reasons I mention).
Wacky Hermit,
All true. When I was a kid (not that long ago, as per the picture of entertainers), words like ADHD and Aspergers were not even uttered.
In most of the world, boys are still allowed to be boys.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 02, 2010 at 02:31 PM
Kudos for picking up the baton that Kim du Toit passed in 2003 and running with it. Just because a truth isn't particularly palatable doesn't mean it shouldn't be examined.
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1189210179 | January 02, 2010 at 02:35 PM
Wack Hermit,
Autism is on the rise because of increased childhood vaccinations (a common preservative used in the vaccines contains mercury... clear negative effects on brain function)
- Woman
Posted by: WTF | January 02, 2010 at 02:35 PM
I'm a futurist, geek, and devout Christian homeschool dad. I have three grown sons and three grown daughters who have all adopted my value system and are ready and willing to outmultiply the Muslims.
The New Testament was radical stuff, in its day, when it first challenged the Greco-Roman paradigm of women and children as chattel. The idea that women were joint heirs of salvation with their husbands was brand new, back then, as was the idea that men related to their wives as Christ did to the Church. It made for committed men and devoted women, but also laid the foundations for the western ideal of romantic and heroic love.
Today, old-fashioned Christian teachings about the roles of men and women are still pretty radical--but they seem to work for an increasing number of high-tech 21st century families.
Posted by: Scott W. Somerville | January 02, 2010 at 02:48 PM
Scott W. Somerville, stop creating more male victims of divorce with your promotion of nonsensical la-la land delusion. Marriage is dead and buried, and feminism and social conservatives like you who encouraged obedience and deference to tyrannical women killed it.
Posted by: God | January 02, 2010 at 02:53 PM
ADHD and Aspergers have been on the rise since childhood vaccinations have increased (vaccines contain a preservative that is made with mercury... proven to cause such cognitive impairment) LOOK IT UP!
- Woman
Posted by: Censored | January 02, 2010 at 03:04 PM
You know, I'm not a feminist. Not.At.All.
However, so many parts of this essay are so crazy that I have a really hard time comprehending the mindset of the author.
First of all, I would love to know where your statistics come from in regards to which partner in a marriage initiates divorce. Secondly, I would love to know what the main reason for initiating divorce is.
I would agree that there are mean wives just as there are mean husbands, but I would like to know how many women are injuring their spouses as compared to men injuring their spouses.
I think my main disagreement with your essay is that you seem to believe that mankind is unable to rise above his animal ancestors. Your arguments appear to indicate that you believe that men are too weak to keep vows and other promises - I believe that humankind can transcend our animal ancestors, and that Western Civilization is the best proof of that.
I really disagree with your suggestion that women are happier in a strongly patriarchal society - that brings to my mind societies like the Taliban, in fact, any Islamic society - where women are forbidden to do much of anything. That is much more like slavery than Western Civilization.
I have a lot of other questions about your essay. I believe it is fundamentally incorrect. However, I have to go tend to the farm animals and get dinner started.
If I have time later tonight or tomorrow, I shall "Fisk" your essay point by point.
Only I will use verifiable statistics and fact, not just conjecture or game theory.
Anthropology, psychology and sociology are all soft sciences, and are all quite subjective.
I want facts, scientific facts, to back up your theories. I'm not seeing them in your links.
Posted by: Beth Donovan | January 02, 2010 at 03:05 PM
Female quips:
"I want facts, scientific facts, to back up your theories. I'm not seeing them in your links."
..while bringing none of your own FACTS to the table to support your visceral reactions. How apropos.
Posted by: Tyler | January 02, 2010 at 03:16 PM
In response to Beth's common feminist argument *strongly patriarchal society bring to my mind societies like the Taliban*, I am posting a response made by the manhood101.com guy on his website:
And you're confusing the religious Islamic system with the principle of authority. They are apples and oranges. That's almost as bad as equating Islam with proper parenting. According to your failed logic, parents should have no authority over their children. They should just let them run wild and hope they raise themselves properly. There are too many current examples of men behind bars that testifies to the inept and impotent nature of this naive approach.
You, like many seduced by Feminism, erroneously equate submission to evil.. submission is not an inherently evil thing just as authority is not inherently evil. Sure there are examples of those who abuse authority just as there are examples of those who abuse submission and go to far in their obedience. E.g., if a parent in authority over a child asks the child to jump off a building, the person submitting should NOT obey, although the child definitely should maintain a proper attitude of submission, even when disobeying.
Submission is required in order for the person who is in charge to meet the needs of the one submitting to the governing authority. If the one in authority is not meeting the needs of those submitting to that authority, then they are not properly exercising authority to begin with... Proper authority ALWAYS serves the needs of those submitting to it. You're referencing a dysfunctional religious system (Islam) as an example of proper authority. That strawman has no legs to stand on.
Posted by: anon | January 02, 2010 at 03:26 PM
TO: All
RE: An 'Interesting' Juxtaposition
Okay.....
....here's what I propose.
[1] Read this article.
[2] Watch Star Trek II — The Wrath of Khan
[3] Watch Shrek II
[4] Watch The Spirit
See any correlation between the four items?
If so....
...WHAT???!?!?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. For the 'slow learners'....
....pay particular attention to:
[1] The self-female who wouldn't tell her son he was sired by Captain James Tiberious Kirk because she wanted him all to herself.
[2] Notice how in Shrek II, the killer musical number is how women are looking for a 'hero', because they can't figure out where all the 'good men' and 'gods' and 'street-wise fighters who stand against the rising odds' have gone.
[3] Notice how from the 1980s to the 2000s, women are STILL 'clueless' about what they REALLY want.....in public. But in the movies????? Three guesses.....
....first two don't count.
P.P.S. Standing here....as I am....I appreciate The Futurist's undertstanding. Probably more than most others here.
How so?
Probably something to do with something I did 30 years ago......
[God is alive.....and Airborne-Ranger qualified. And so am I.
Posted by: Chuck Pelto | January 02, 2010 at 03:39 PM
Beth,
The statistics are backed by the links provided.
I did not think people were seriously questioning that 70-90% of marriages were ended by women.
Your arguments appear to indicate that you believe that men are too weak to keep vows and other promises
I believe WOMEN have shown themselves to be this way.
I want facts, scientific facts, to back up your theories. I'm not seeing them in your links.
You are *choosing* not to see them...
Posted by: The Futurist | January 02, 2010 at 03:45 PM
Yeah "The threat of cuckholdry will keep men from committing to women or getting married. Think about it."
This is true, but also beside the point.
"Bleh, and every feminist and "enlightened male" may say that paternity doesn't matter. But if they really believe that garbage then they are living in a fantasy world."
It matters to most people, but not to everyone. I would gladly adopt (if I had any interest in children, that is).
Posted by: bleh | January 02, 2010 at 03:52 PM
Anyone who thinks that cuckoldry is "less damaging" than rape should have a talk with the victims of Cecil Jacobson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Jacobson
Posted by: The Blanque | January 02, 2010 at 04:23 PM
futurist: does your definition of alpha male entail those men who have frequent trysts with a variety of attractive nubile women?
Posted by: gaga | January 02, 2010 at 04:34 PM
Great summation of the issues.
Even though bleh's points are contrarian to your thesis, I don't find them white knight-ish or feminist as you do. I think he makes an interesting argument, I just happen to lean more towards yours.
Posted by: Luvsic | January 02, 2010 at 04:35 PM
A minor opportunity has been presented to alter the course this all takes. With state governments in dire need of new revenue sources, one of the last remaining taboos available for taxation is presented as a weapon against the tide. Time to legalize and tax commercial sex. Skip the virtual.
Regardless of the protest in Lawrence, consenting adult behavior is fundamentally the same. As Nevada has shown, it can be regulated sufficiently to remove the associated criminal element rationale utilized to stop its expansion. With the unwitting assistance of the radical gay community which has indoctrinated school children for two decades, it is no longer the old issue of men exploiting women. A visit to a NSFWP adult site will show that the ladies who advertise their services in Las Vegas offer their virtues to other ladies on a nearly 1 to 2 ratio that they offer them to males. It is now a non-gender specific recreation.
The real resistance to legalizing the profession is the same reason to obstruct the virtual alternative. It's the old game of monopoly. Those beta males will opt for the alternative. So those who have the monopoly, rather than improve the quality of their product or services, have always use their political influence to maintain the monopoly. That is where the moment now presents itself as the needs of the politicians in obtaining the basis of their own existence hangs by the thread of ever decreasing revenues.
If the politicians can be enticed with both new revenue and new powers of regulation, then the monopoly can be broken now. That means that real competition can open up sooner than later. With competition, its adapt or perish.
Posted by: Don51 | January 02, 2010 at 05:13 PM
if you truly looked at culture with the "eyes of the other sex" and reversed the power dynamics in most of the media that is out there today, i believe that you would not come to the conclusion that it is centered around the empowerment of women. maybe you are noticing it because it happens to be a new (and, in cases like 'cougar town', jarring) method of the mainstream media to capture women's attention.
the creators of this media know that this particular audience is a powerful consumer group, and that is probably why they are targeted with shows that appeal to their sexuality. but i think the mistake you are making is that this is more directed to the collective imagination and fantasies of women rather than their daily choices and practices. its dangerous to look at culture and take it at face value. for example, it might be more instructive to look at who is producing the media, and why? maybe it is not created out of the very deepest and most earnest desires of women who are trying to fashion a new reality for themselves, maybe it is a form of escapism??
why are you letting yourself be victimized by the media? last time i checked, the media and the goals of 'feminism' (to generalize a movement that has had many goals and theories, not all leftist) were not perfectly aligned. also you have the choice to not watch.
regarding the 'venusian arts': this is exactly the kind of cynical 'instruction' that any woman can find in cosmopolitan magazine. maybe it contains some form of truth in the means of seduction, but it comes at the expense of dehumanizing your would be partner, and also objectifying yourself and dismantling your personality. is it wrong for women to object to this kind of gender programming? i think not, as it seems to promote the lowest possible expectations of the opposite sex. maybe in this case men have something to learn from feminism. (i had never heard of 'venusian arts' or 'game' before today)
but to get to the governmental aspect, of enforced child support and the legal favoritism of women and or minorities, that is a problem that both women and men SHARE, and it has less to do with feminism than a rampant government presence in all of our lives, redistributing wealth in ways that are STATED to help women and minorities, but actually are in place to benefit special interest and the powers that be in government. in fact, i believe that it was the bill clinton administration that really pushed the 'deadbeat dad' message to america, which served to create a whole new mass of bureaucracy to enforce the legislation and child support payments. so really this pandering is just a means to a political end, always. and everyone suffers as a result, including women, in the form of new tax burdens.
Posted by: hey | January 02, 2010 at 05:32 PM
As a woman who watched her ex-husband (he wanted the divorce) go through hell during his subsequent marriage's divorce and custody battle, I have to say that I largely agree with what you have written. However, I'm not sure I buy your depiction of "social conservatives". While there has been a lot of focus in recent years of encouraging men to "live up" to their responsibilities, I have also seen more encouragement of women being supportive of their husbands and acknowledging them as being head of the household. (Then again, I live in Texas.) That being said, unfortunately, society has impacted the church more than the Church is impacting society, so there's still too much of the male-bashing we see everywhere else.
Posted by: Sandra | January 02, 2010 at 05:33 PM
Sandra,
I have also seen more encouragement of women being supportive of their husbands and acknowledging them as being head of the household.
This is very good. But the lefto-feminist cohorts are very opposed to this, as evidenced how they put down women like Laura Bush, Cindy McCain, etc.
Texas has a stronger social fabric than Boston, New York, or San Francisco. I am not sure you are aware how uncouth urban women have become.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 02, 2010 at 05:43 PM
But why would women not also utilise 'computerised' sexual technology? If men are not supplying income, are not required for childbirth, and not required for access in social situations (either because of the greater acceptance of single females and/or the lesser need for interaction in public space) why would not the 'large majority' of women who you feel will fail socially not just - like your supposed Beta male - simply withdraw from the 'marketspace'?
Not that it will make much difference to me. ( Being masculine in all but genitallia and too old to worry about the details.)
Posted by: Annie Z | January 02, 2010 at 06:02 PM
You are so late - I've been banging this drum, without mention, for years now. Which, BTW, is another fine example of of our point.
http://themachoresponse.blogspot.com
Posted by: The Crack Emcee | January 02, 2010 at 06:11 PM
Then pendulum swings.
I can remember a time in the 70's when all the songs on the radio sounded like they were being sung by castratos or constantly in falsetto. Not today.
Posted by: bytehead | January 02, 2010 at 06:14 PM
Annie Z,
Because that is not how female attraction works. Female attraction is very complex (necessitating a man's learning of Game), while male attraction is very visual.
The gap between the number of women who can earn a living based only on their looks vs. the number of men who can do the same is telling.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 02, 2010 at 06:23 PM
This has long needed to be said more openly.
I would disagree slightly with your take on the rise of monogamy.
It was not a case of humans following a simple gorilla-like alpha male takes all pattern, with monogamy somehow imposed later by organized religion. Apart from being not fully correct, that gives cover to those claiming that the various dysfunctions you cite really aren't such since they are natural.
My reading from evolutionary psychology (Matt Ridley's 'The Red Queen' etc) suggest that humans in the most primitive sorts of hunter gatherer societies were were already evolving socially toward a weakly monogamous state --in extremely primitive times, everyone suffered the 'equality' of poverty. Human babies and pregnant mothers needed the resources a man could supply, and very few men had the resources to support multiple women and their children (that came later in various despotisms). Of course there was the occasional cheating by/with the big hunters/warriors etc, but trend toward monogamy was established by evolution, and *not* something fabricated later.
Successful cultures all ended up institutionalizing it with some sort of formal marriage (or polygamy in certain cases, but they were usually not stable w/o females of conquered people to spread around to the local males).
I've had a bellyful of how feminist-influenced pop culture complains about men who are shirkers, slackers, afraid of commitment, etc, but who focus so strongly on mocking and denigrating the men who *do* act responsibly, the actual fathers and husbands.
Posted by: newscaper | January 02, 2010 at 06:42 PM
It is a good thing you guys and gals
are stitching this thread in CyberSpace;
If you were face-to-face, there would be blood. :)
It would be funny were it not so sad; Each half
of the human race blaming the other half for _all_
the race's problems, when the true cause is too much
prosperity, and the two choices are to go backward,
to a society of scarcity, which enforces the nuclear
family, or forward, to a society of plenty, where
each individual can live as they choose, and the only
ones who choose the difficult path of raising a family
are those who should.
A relevant, revealing example: Heinlein's novel
"Podkayne of Mars" which people today see as a
role model for teenage girls, but which was written
as a warning for parents too busy with their own
lives, and careers, properly to raise their children.
The happy ending was grafted on by the editor, to
improve sales; In the original, Poddie, who should
have been taught better by her parents, makes a
childish, emotional choice, and dies for it.
Paraphrasing another Heinlein observation on
Global thermonuclear War; The US, and the rest of
the world, are in for Hard Times, and the only good
news is that, for a change, intelligence will have
survival value; Choose sides, team up, and start
preparing to live the future, rather than discuss it.
Posted by: M. Report | January 02, 2010 at 06:44 PM
What a load of beta twaddle. I hate it when folks call themselves conservative and then start taking on membership in supposed victim groups, particularly when it's supposedly due to social forces.
Your life is your own to make of it what you will. To be happy, just stand up for yourself, and for the ones you love, for what you believe, and give your children a set of values - by actually living them - that they can build upon as they see fit, and don't worry about how the rest of the world sees you. Yes, you'll fight battles that you end up losing, you'll suffer for your decisions; well, life's just not fair. Just grow a pair, and be an example to your sons and daughters.
Posted by: HalifaxCB | January 02, 2010 at 07:12 PM
I'm reminded of that old Chinese saying/curse, "May you live in interesting times."
If this article is even half right the next ten years may indeed be those "interesting times".
Posted by: BU | January 02, 2010 at 07:23 PM
HalifaxCB, your naive advice to men is as insulting and patronizing to men living under feminism, as it would have been to blacks living under slavery. We are battling an entire cultural, legal and societal feminist industrial complex that refuses to allow men to "live his own life to make of it what he will"
You sir, are a gullible fool.
Posted by: John | January 02, 2010 at 07:27 PM
John,
Agreed. What I wrote in the 'Socialcons, Whiteknights' section is seen here.
No mention of how the laws are rigged unfairly against men, and the pervasive institutional structure to free women from the consequences of their own actions, cannot be countered merely by empty sermonizing.
Of course, HalifaxCB is partly right about taking charge of the situation. By this logic, he should be a strong supporter of the Venusian Arts, which are entirely about a man creating positive outcomes for himself without depending on anyone else.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 02, 2010 at 07:36 PM
On the rape-cuckolding argument...
In and of itself, I'd be inclined to say that rape is worse. When there's no marriage or children involved, being cuckolded actually presents a simple response: Dump her, move on.
When one or the above is concerned, however...well, the main article has already spelled out what is likely to happen. If divorce laws showed true gender equity, the cuckolded husband would be able to simply move on, but in this day and age it can be a life sentence, while rape is something that can be recovered from (not to say that it's easy, but people can and have done so). It only takes a casual overview of how adultery tends to be treated in the media to see how attitudes aren't equal: A man who commits adultery is a scumbag, while if a woman commits adultery, it's often portrayed as being still the man's fault for not taking proper care of her wants and needs.
On the whole, I suspect Natural One's reverse-Lysistratan solution probably would be the fastest way to break the bubble, but I don't see many alphas being willing to maintain the strike, especially those that only see the short-term benefit to them of the situation.
Posted by: Random Commentator | January 02, 2010 at 08:32 PM
Great post.
Posted by: Niko | January 02, 2010 at 10:17 PM
"The wife retained her beauty 15 years into the marriage, and the lack of processed junk food kept her slim even after that."
This is one of the most ignorant statements I have ever seen. Until very recently, a woman over thirty was middle-aged. If she had had children, her body was dumpy and shapeless. She was probably missing several teeth, and had wrinkles and was going gray. Her skin was probably damaged from smallpox, acne, or excessive exposure to sun and wind.
She was worn from the years of grueling labor housekeeping used to require. All laundry done by hand. All meals cooked from scratch. Hand sewing to repair and maintain the family's garments. (There's a reason why sewing machines became a billion-dollar industry.) Before 1800 or so, more grueling hours of spinning and weaving and sewing so that the family would have clothes to wear at all. The only reason women didn't get fat is because there was just enough food to eat and nothing over.
Anyone who thinks otherwise should take a look at the peasant women of countries like India, who still live that good old life style in many respect.
Which is not to say this post doesn't have some good points about the masculinity-hostile qualities of modern culture.
Posted by: Rich Rostrom | January 02, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Rick Rostrom,
You are wrong. Even 40 years ago in the US, women with 4 children did not become fat. The better diet and household chores kept her thin. 40 years ago was not the 'working in the fields' era.
You haven't seen much of the world outside the modern US. The example of India proves my point, not yours. You are thinking only in extremes, which makes YOU the ignorant one.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 03, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Absolutely loved the article.
As someone with over $200K in child arrears and close to $4K a month in payments, it totally hits home.
Posted by: Eddie | January 03, 2010 at 01:45 AM
Very long... and mostly, very boring tripe. As I said before, your writings on the singularity are far more interesting.
That said, given that I'm a Bay Area environmentalist Marxist, feel free to disregard that.
Posted by: Sublime Oblivion | January 03, 2010 at 02:35 AM
I was already reading this blog alongside Roissy, what an interesting development :-)
I'm going to print this tract, frame it, and hand it over to my son for his 16th birthday.
Posted by: RobR | January 03, 2010 at 02:35 AM
Nothing will change until men start striking back at an grossly unjust society and its justice system. African Americans learned that and men of all races need to use the same tactics.
Women know that they can safely send innocent men to prison, take their children away with a word and openly discriminate against them and yet pay no price. That has to change. It wasn't the civil rights movement itself that brought justice for black Americans. It should have been enough, but it wasn't. What gave authority to the civil rights movement and brought it to life was the direct evidence that life was going to be very dangerous and unpleasant for the oppressors if they tried to continue operating behind a blatantly discriminatory and bigotted system.
Watch out for male brothers, especially in the workplace. Women have been bragging openly about doing exactly that as part of their "sisterhood" for decades, but they will tell you it is wrong for men to do the same for each other. They are laughing behind our backs while we try to do the "right thing".
Eagerly and smartly take on jury duty and keep in mind how unjust the system is before you vote to convict yet another victim of that system. Jury nullification is a soothing balm for a frustrated victim. We know the justice system is designed to convict men. Vote accordingly when your conscience can allow it.
Strike back in whatever capacity you can without endangering yourself or other males. Make women pay a price for laughing at your desire for justice and equality. Only then will things change.
Support others who are doing the same.
Posted by: Mike Johnson | January 03, 2010 at 03:21 AM
Sublime Oblivion,
Perhaps you should question your Marxism through logical reasoning, rather than follow it as a religion.
No logical person can support Marxism at this point.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 03, 2010 at 03:35 AM
I don't think you are a white knight or a feminist, bleh, so I'll skip past that and engage your actual point, which I'm sure you will appreciate.
On game, you are just wrong. Game is a strategy for attracting a mate, just like wearing make-up is for women. I'm not sure if you have maybe just watched one clip of Mystery on YouTube, or read a few of Roissy in DC's more provocative pieces (and he intends to provoke, you realize), but I assure you it's nuances and the differing styles men use are quite diverse.
Rather than try and prove the point to you here, I'll simply assert to you that I study game, that I use it effectively, that I love women, that my relations with women are far happier than before, and that the women I spend time with are far happier, too. I don't go club hopping or pick up floozies. I date intelligent, beautiful, educated, friendly, artistic women, and I let my interactions with them be informed by what I have learned about female psychology.
Go read my blog at http://alpha-status.blogspot.com/ (My posts are tagged "Master Dogen" ... my co-blogger "11minutes" has a slightly different set of topics he covers). Then comment there or back here that you what you assert is categorically true.
Best of luck...
And a big thank you to the writer for this article. Superb.
Posted by: Master Dogen | January 03, 2010 at 03:46 AM
Incidentally, I fully agree with The Futurist that this is a counter-strategy to the collapse of patriarchy, and I plead guilty to the charge of putting my own short-term interests ahead of that of the society at large. My only point to "bleh" was that it doesn't make me a misogynist.
Posted by: Master Dogen | January 03, 2010 at 03:56 AM
The truth hurts, sometimes. Great article, even if it was only written for "altruism."
This took me an entire weekend to read (following the links and getting sidetracked and such) and will probably take me much longer to digest. I wish I had something constructive to offer, but I just wanted to extend my gratitude for this great piece.
Posted by: JDApostasy | January 03, 2010 at 06:05 AM
I am disinclined to put much faith in someone who thinks that Jan 1st was the first day of the new decade. We have a year to go before that happens. Simple comprehension precedes complex ones.
Posted by: Tatterhead.blogspot.com | January 03, 2010 at 06:16 AM
This analysis should be read, taught, and discussed worldwide.
When a society rots from the inside out due to morality destrutction, it's dead. When society established 'victim groups', the end can't be far off.
The 'rot' started in the 60's, and has finally gained power, and more destruction is to come.
What the writer layed out here is principles, reason, and results captured in the Bible.
Unless society return to its roots, there is no happy ending.
Posted by: Inge | January 03, 2010 at 06:16 AM
Since you deleted my first comment, I'll try again. This time, I will just address one of your "statistics"
Source - http://www.bauerfamilylaw.com/divorce.htmlAnd further research reveals that approximately 60% of women who file for divorce do so because the man has cheated on her.
I have no respect for an essay that uses made-up statistics.
And honestly, what is this? "The He-Man Wimmen Haters Club" from "Our Gang"???
Posted by: Bhdonovan | January 03, 2010 at 06:21 AM
regarding gay 'marriage'. Gays do not procreate, gay marriage especially among men is often not even an intentionally monogamous union as is at least initially the goal of traditional marriage. It's strictly a mechanism coopting social and financial benefit and donning a mantle of respectability and responsibility. THe officers of the court see this as a new avenue of income, understanding the turbulent nature of unions that have no real underpinnings other than 'play'
Posted by: red pill | January 03, 2010 at 07:44 AM
"I am disinclined to put much faith in someone who thinks that Jan 1st was the first day of the new decade. We have a year to go before that happens. "
Tatterhead:
You know, all dates are just conventions. If people colloquially refer to the year that ends in a zero as the beginning of a decade, you might quibble, but to take that high and mighty tone is just silly.
Was 1990 the last year of the 80's?
Posted by: Master Dogen | January 03, 2010 at 08:04 AM
As to the notion that rape is in any fashion as reprehensible as cuckoldry, consider this: rape is transitory, while cuckoldry persists for a lifetime.
I cannot imagine that anyone except a hardcore feminist could fail to grasp this.
Posted by: HR Lincoln | January 03, 2010 at 08:34 AM
The Futurist,
Thank you for an interesting and thought provoking read, albeit one that I largely agreed with before your solid formulation of the ideas and their implications. However, I lack your (relative) confidence that it will be fixed, particularly in the time frame discussed. Particularly with regard to the US legal structure, I cannot see how it would realistically be fixed. As you point out, there is no real man's rights movement, nor do you seem to expect one soon. Your view seems to be something along the lines of 'something that can't go on forever, won't'. It is economically unsustainable, but I cannot imagine any government official, or politician, saying, "We've got a serious revenue problem, let's fix the divorce laws!"
I fear an outcome more like the historical solution to unsustainable societies. They were not fixed, they were replaced...and your demographics seem to point that way as well. Or in more economic terms, more like classic example of NYC unionized brick layers...it is unsustainable, but the few are willing to sacrifice the building material of brick and all those possible new union construction jobs in order to hold (their) existing jobs at extortionary wages for maintaining the existing brick building inventory. I can't imagine the married woman voting block allowing anyone to challenge their current supreme position in the system.
No matter how broken, I can't see the people involved in the current travesty of the family court system (politicians, judges, governemnt attorneys, lawyers, bureacrats etc) fixing it...or even allowing it to be fixed by someone outside the system.
I fear 'western' civilization is quickly heading toward the fate of the Byzantines...another broken society, and it was not fixed. Can you share a little of the hope you seem to have that this can be fixed by elaborating on how you think it will be fixed? (perhaps next article?)
aND thank you again for the intelligent, interesting, and thought provoking essay.
Posted by: Daedalus Mugged | January 03, 2010 at 09:32 AM
Since you deleted my first comment, I'll try again. This time, I will just address one of your "statistics"
....despite the fact that 90% of divorces are initiated by women.
According to a study published in the American Law and Economics Review, women currently file slightly more than two-thirds of divorce cases in the US.[5] There is some variation among states, and the numbers have also varied over time, with about 60% of filings by women in most of the 19th century, and over 70% by women in some states just after no-fault divorce was introduced, according to the paper.
Source - http://www.bauerfamilylaw.com/divorce.html
And further research reveals that approximately 60% of women who file for divorce do so because the man has cheated on her.
I have no respect for an essay that uses made-up statistics.
And honestly, what is this? "The He-Man Wimmen Haters Club" from "Our Gang"???
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Beth Donovan,
Your lack of reading comprehension skills and desire to mischaracterize a thoroughly researched article are showing. Not to also mention, you use the very same shaming tactic used by the feminists to project their own insecurities against men "what is this? "The He-Man Wimmen Haters Club"
Now that readers know how little credibility you hold through your own actions, I am going to respond to your facetious arguments.
Your own source states women filed for divorce 70% of the time after no-fault divorce was used. This is the percentage The Futurist used in his article, but to reach the 90% figure he added 20% for the time when she forces the man to file, due to abuse or adultery on the part of the woman. This foresight on your part is a clear example of your poor reading comprehension skills.
"And further research reveals that approximately 60% of women who file for divorce do so because the man has cheated on her."
The gov't bureaucracy has a vested interest in portraying women as victims and vilifying good men in all major extortion rackets overseen by the feminist industrial complex including but not limited to the divorce industry, the child support industry, the sexual assault industry and the affirmative action industry. Many millions of lawyers, judges, legislators make their living off the backs of hard-working, but powerless men and the self-serving moral panic they spread throughout society, media and culture to demonize and denigrate traditional male identity.
Since you have demonstrated you are not the sharpest knife in the drawer I have created a short version of the explanation above:
You are a man hater who psychologically projects his/her bigotry onto men battling the trampling of their civil rights. You have exposed your hand and anyone with sight sees that you hold nothing but a JOKER card.
Posted by: John | January 03, 2010 at 10:30 AM
A very interesting piece, I do have some remarks:
Societies that deviated from this were quickly replaced. This 'contract' between the sexes was advantageous to beta men, women over the age of 35, and children, but greatly curbed the activities of alpha men and women under 35 (together, a much smaller group than the former one).
Up until a few centuries ago, the life expectancy wasn’t much longer than 35, so the under-35 population would outnumber the under-35 population. But that’s splitting hairs and if you merely changed the numbers, the point would apply.
Polls of men have shown that there is one thing men fear even more than being raped themselves, and that is being cuckolded.
You mean a poll, as in singular. And it was a unscientific internet "push poll" in which the author phrased the question in such a way as to achieve his desired result. A man as scientific as yourself should know that such a poll is worthless.
I loved your final point:
For those misandrists who say 'good riddance' with great haste, remember that blogging can still be done from overseas, and your policy of making the top 1% of earners pay 40% of all taxes that your utopia requires depends on that top 1% agreeing to not take their brains and abscond from Western shores.
Read Atlas Shrugged for a great story about what happens to a society when its most productive members go on strike.
Posted by: Sparks123 | January 03, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Beth Donovan,
90% are initiated by woman, for which I have provided sources as well as an explanation. 70% are filed by her, and in another 20% of instances she forces the man to file by either cheating or moving out.
And further research reveals that approximately 60% of women who file for divorce do so because the man has cheated on her.
Bogus. Female adultery is just as prevalent as male adultery.
No comment of yours was deleted. Your pathetic attempt to obscure feminist wrongdoings actually proves the point of the whole article.
Tatterhead (an appropriate handle),
I knew there would be some loser who whines about the 'decade' point. What part of 'the first decade of the 201x years' do you not comprehend?
One could argue that the third digit supercedes the fourth. Perhaps a matter known as Y2K occurred in the 90s?
What a lazy way to avoid facing the real points.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 03, 2010 at 11:57 AM