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 below (click to enlarge), 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, and while we are not willing to rescind that prediction, 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'.
"What if everything from unsustainable health care and social security costs, to stagnant wages and rising crime, to crumbling infrastructure and metastasizing socialism, to the economic decline of major US cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, could all be traced to a common origin"
Yes, really what if.
Posted by: sender | February 08, 2011 at 08:18 AM
Okay, so you're cool with people slandering the character of male homosexuals, but doubt a single-bullet theory for societal decline you get moderated. Fine, bozo; I'll hit back where you can't.
Posted by: sender | February 08, 2011 at 09:51 AM
I really like that article but want to point out 2 things. One was already addressed here: You say 90% of divorce are initiated by women. 70% filed by her and 20% forcing him by cheating. But if you add those 20% you must be fair to subtract the 20% (estimated) of cases where he forced her by cheating. In my opinion cheating women do more wrong than cheating men because they take the risk to get pregnant, and also the man is polygamous by nature. But adding those 20% gives critics a point to argue so I would just not mention this. 70% is enough anyway.
The second thing is about the venusian Arts. There is many different ways of those but most I see is just learning to adapt to women's already dysfunctional behavior. I don't know if you read this http://manhood101.com/principles101.pdf
In my opinion this is a much better way to deal with women.
(If you don't publish comments anymore, it would be nice to hear your opinion by email)
Posted by: Alex | February 10, 2011 at 04:10 PM
This post is so biased as it gets. It looks like something Glenn Beck from Fox Channel would have said. You clearly have an agenda which I just cannot pinpoint what it is. The author has been looking for data that confirms their worldview and denied research that shows other possibilities. It's classical confirmation bias in its rawest form. This shit doesn't help anyone and should be read by anyone since it is just negative and only shows one side of the coin. It's clearly some whining from some man who aint getting laid as much as he would like...
I recommend people to look for couples who are together, for marriages who are still working (yes they do exist, unfortunately for the author's worldview is shattered though).
People need to see the both sides of the coin otherwise this post is just as bad as any journalism in reporting "what is going on in the world". Stop whining n' approach women instead!
Posted by: Max Kay | February 11, 2011 at 11:46 PM
Max Kay,
It looks like something Glenn Beck from Fox Channel would have said.
Translation : Max Kay is intellectually outclassed, and cannot admit it.
Also, Max, this article is critical of conservatives too. You may want to work on your reading skills.
It's clearly some whining from some man who aint getting laid as much as he would like...
Yawn... I pre-empted this type of shaming language in the article, and predict it. Yet, you engage in it anyway, which proves your projection. That you do what the article predicts you will shows how stupid you are.
Plus, I most certainly do better with women than you - read the Venusian Arts section (the second time you prove you didn't read the article, out of cowardice).
People need to see the both sides of the coin
This is a very fair article that shows both sides, against the massive volume of anti-male bigotry. That is why this article is so famous and well-regarded.
Posted by: The Futurist | February 12, 2011 at 09:40 PM
I am actually starting a book about misandry and would love to have some email chatter with you.
Posted by: Cecil Westervelt | February 16, 2011 at 08:52 AM
For a more in-depth discussion of these issues I strongly recommend Dr. Warren Farrell's books The Myth of Male Power and Father and Child Reunion. In terms of divorce there is much help for men, though I agree with the author's premise that men are less likely to admit they need help and seek it out. Specifically for divorcing men see: www.FathersUnite.org, Also www.BestInterestOfChildren.org to learn why sole custody in divorce is a form of child abuse and is literally destroying U.S. society and the root cause of most of 20 other social problems like drugs, crime, teen pregnancy, mental health and more. What most people do not realize is that all fifty states get paid by the federal governement to generate child support orders and collections. So every state profits from sole custody. This is BILLIONS each year.
Posted by: Bob Norton | February 24, 2011 at 11:51 AM
i keep talking about this issue with family and friends, they all think i'm crazy, thank god for this and other articles on the subject.
to me it all feels like a prison without bars or fences, there is no where to go that I can be myself, no where to go that I can be who I want to be, so i hide away, I work, pay bills, mow the yard and all that stuff, but that's it, once the nescessities are taken care of I go to my man-cave and stay there until real world things have to be taken care of again, i know it's anti-social but I can't help it, I want no part of this "new" world, I hate it.
Posted by: Stacey Shoemaker | February 24, 2011 at 12:02 PM
I think it is a mistake to look at this from the point of view of which laws should be changed or which sex is most blameworthy. In fact I think either approach is completely pointless. I think there are much larger cultural and sociological forces at work, which I tried to articulate here: http://www.mypostingcareer.com/forums/index.php?/topic/155-the-limits-of-human-scale/
Posted by: Mypostingcareer | February 24, 2011 at 02:08 PM
I agree with you that men are losing their identity and voice in society but you do take too harsh of a stance against women. And using Indian culture of mysogyny as an example, doesn't help your otherwise valid point.
Posted by: Faiza Akhtar | February 28, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Faiza Akhtar,
I am a Muslim.
Indian culture does not have pervasive misogyny (plus, you can't seem to spell that word, heh). Isolated incidents to not indicate that the entire culture is that way.
You are Muslim, so it is odd that you would call another culture as misogynist.
In America, however, there are actual laws that abuse and mistreat men specifically.
Posted by: The Futurist | February 28, 2011 at 09:21 PM
The article is quite comprehensive and thought-provoking. The only objection I would hold is with using India as a positive counterexample. That society is a backwater dump of misogyny, not as liberal feminists understand the word, but in its dictionary definition. Quite aside from the industrious history of American patriarchy, the Indian gender arrangement is more typical of Middle East male indolence.
It is the sole country I would volunteer whose gender arrangement dampens its economic prospects more than any Western country; despite adopting the political institutions of a nation (the US) which easily outpaces China - a nation 1/4th of the latter's population and 1/3 of its own - India is no threat to surpass either. Its dowry system alone results in a (gender selected) abortion factory to rival the US, the dowry's expense surpassing all but the most ridiculous instances of the male-indenturing engagement ring and bridepocalypse wedding traditions.
Anyone who works in the medical field has experienced this demographic wreckage firsthand. Indian med students in the American hospital are a farce to behold - Mad Men (minus libido and productivity), only to their female equals and even to superiors, and no later than first introduction. As you point out at length arguing the reverse point, no society that cripples the economic AND reproductive contributions of an entire gender can expect to compete globally.
Posted by: hitnrun | March 01, 2011 at 06:25 PM
hitnrun,
India is not 'misogynistic' at all. It had a female prime minister decades ago. Plus, you don't see Indian women clamoring to become more Western. There are no mandated veils in India, so it is absurd to compare it to the Middle East.
It appears you don't have much direct experience with India - it appears that what you know is only second and third-hand, and thus inaccurate.
Posted by: The Futurist | March 02, 2011 at 12:00 AM
These links might be interesting for anyone interested in this article:
Man donates sperm to lesbian couple - lesbian couple sues him for alimony, just might get it. (Germany)
http://bit.ly/eJgjre
Man Receives Oral Sex, woman saves sperm and inseminates herself, ordered to Pay Child Support - WTF?
http://bit.ly/gNxtCb
PS. On the topic of India... Hitnrun your knowledge of India is sorely lacking. The dowry system has been outlawed for quite a while now. Further, all clinics in India are forbidden to reveal the sex of a child from sonograms etc. under punishment of jail. Women in India understand what it means to be a woman. Even Hinduism dictates that women are not "lower" then men, but it certainly does say that they are different (as they are). Basically, you're an idiot.
Posted by: Oort | March 05, 2011 at 05:38 PM
This article deserves some sort of reward
Posted by: derek | March 06, 2011 at 11:28 PM
As a young male I could identify with a lot of the points presented in the article, I do not have much information on this subject but this is one of the most comprehensive articles I have read on this topic. I guess I could be considered a 'beta male' since I don't chase after sex. After being mistreated by women my entire life, I gave up on them. I do not hate women, I am just very sad that there are so few who are not completely materialistic and capable of genuine love. I will not say all of them are mean or cruel, just I have never met a kind or nice girl. It is terrible to be alone, but even worse to be in an abusive relationship.
Posted by: Lovelight | March 09, 2011 at 12:03 PM
More cracks in the dam showing up every day.
Here's the latest:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1364690/Have-Dutch-women-secret-happiness.html
When the likes of Liz Jones starts to turn on Feminism, you know the Misandry Bubble is going down.
It's not a question of "if", but "when"...
Posted by: When the levee breaks... | March 10, 2011 at 08:28 AM
I agree with some of what you say. Divorce laws do need to be rewritten for a modern world where a single woman is perfectly able to go and get a job and does not automatically face financial and social ruin. Most of your conclusions though are well off the mark. While deriding others for using false statistics, poor logic, name slinging and unsubstantiated evidence you do the same. I do not have time to point out all your errors, as this would be almost as long as your article, I will point out two of the most obvious.
According to the article "90% of divorces initiated by women (she files 70% of the time, and the other 20% of the time, she forces the man to file, due to abuse or adultery on the part of the woman)." By that same logic 50% of divorces are initiated by men (he files 30% of the time and if we agree that men and women are equally adulterous and abusive (I do), he forces the woman to file, owing to abuse or adultery 20% of the time. That means 140% of divorces are initiated by men or women. Doesn't add up. OK, that still leaves women initiating most of the divorces, but it changes the picture. It is also a clear example of your "facts" being dubious.
Also, there is a difference between feminists and A feminist. One woman writing an article or blog, or even a small group, does not mean something is the view of the whole. To give an example: I am a "leftist" (socialist, expatriate (thereby America hating in your view) white night). I think abortion should be illegal. There is a sizable portion of "leftists," primarily Catholic and Jewish, who are of this view. Sadly it does not mean "leftists" want to ban abortion.
Posted by: CRMJ | March 13, 2011 at 01:35 PM
CMRJ,
90% of divorces initiated by women.
I have linked to a source for that statistic. I would like a better source, of course, but even if the 90% number is shaky, no one disputes 70%.
Furthermore, the huge financial imbalance in favor of the woman also makes a number in the 70-90% range unsurprising.
There is much more support for the 90% number I cite, than the tired old lie that women are underpaid relative to men. If statistical accuracy is as important to you as you claim, you should be attacking that bogus stat.
thereby America hating in your view.
So you are ascribing 'views' to me before I have said anything. This does not build credibility.
On abortion, many on the right are abhorrent too, as they truly think abortion only happens because a callous man abandoned the mother (ignoring that the state will zealously make such a man pay the woman). The reverse is actually much more common.
The right's opposition to abortion is incomplete and cowardly at best, as they only oppose it to the extent that they can punish men, but never have the courage to consider women as capable of wrongdoing.
So your comment misses the mark, both on the article, and on me.
If those are the only two supposed 'errors' you can find (neither of which is an error), then this article is rock-solid.
Posted by: The Futurist | March 13, 2011 at 07:22 PM
I enjoyed reading this. I'd say there are exceptions to all rules.
I'm currently in my second frustrating year of a strike, as also suggested by Natural One above.
For me it is more a disenchantment with love, I now see females largely as functional reproduction engines, and they play a serious game. Falling in love is a weakness which can ruin lives, as I really cared about the girl I was with for years, and I miss our friendship still. I do not care for the responsibility of children, I prefer a hedonistic life.
I prefer to masturbate. It's easy to admit. It's the chemical release in my brain at orgasm I like. Women are a compromise, as their desires and needs are introduced to compete with my own.
I don't need someone to spoon me, I don't need a cook or cleaner.
I think concern over what parts of the world are breeding and at what rate is a sad point to make. We are all the same race. There is no human which would not flourish given the same opportunities as the first world. Let the breeding masses of the third world take the burden of parenthood, while we in the first can enjoy life. As long as human genetics survive, we all win.
No sane person can deny an overpopulation of our species on Earth. For each living woman to want to have a child of her own is a selfish and dangerous indulgence which our descendants will pay dearly for.
It simply doesn't matter what we look like physically in 200 years, or what colour.
Just that we live.
So if some men wish to judge women with numerical values, or amuse themselves with games, it doesn't matter. Just don't breed, and we all win.
Posted by: Calculon | March 14, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Thanks for this article.
Would it be ok if I printed this stuff and showed it to anyone interested?
Alpha(from India)
Yes, proceed by all means.
Posted by: alpha | March 20, 2011 at 01:58 AM
In reality, it is very long, but the reading is made up of all that I learned from MGTOW came to my attention. I could literally say anything to his argument, but to see all there (well, a lot of it, but not all) is just ... gives you an appreciation of what you have learned.
Posted by: gardens events | March 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM
This is incredible. I came across this post when taking a class on modern social issues, and while reading the text book I felt a certain bias that compelled me to do independent research.
After reading your post and checking the sources I was surprised at how accurate your findings were and how well organized your ideas are too. I began to read commentary but realized there is still just as much in this section as was in the dissertation. I read a few in the beginning and then skipped to the end. It’s funny to see how there are those that nit-pick at your article, thinking that somehow they are going to knock loose a key stone that ruins your credibility. For the most part, anti-misandry articles are better researched, more accurate in capturing the ideals of regular people, and overall more well written, than the man bashing articles primarily because they are not based on hate and false ideals but rather take a defensive stance on promoting truth over falsehood. This is a prime example, and is something everyone should read in order to educate themselves on the truth about gender issues in our society. I have already shared it with two friends. I would like to say thank you for all the work in putting this together.
Posted by: Rick | April 01, 2011 at 06:27 PM
Rick,
Thanks!
Please participate in the anti-misandry flyer campaign outlined in the 'It is Time to Expose Misandry' article at the top of tbe blog's main page.
That is a highly asymmetrical strategy that can escalate pressure against misandry very quickly, even if only a few guys are posting flyers.
Posted by: The Futurist | April 03, 2011 at 01:14 AM
There is one thing I am a little confused about, namely how social conservatives are aiding feminism when a social conservative is supposed to be promoting traditional values. They are usually the ones opposed to a lot of the feminism psycho-babble aren't they?
Sarah Palin for example, claims herself to be a social conservative feminist, and she is not the typical femi-nazi that believes in the genocide or complete submission of the male species, and is demonized by other radical feminists as she campaigns against them.
Posted by: Rickster | April 03, 2011 at 02:08 AM
Ha, just realized I used my other post name Rickster, but no Rick and Rickster are the same person.
Posted by: Rickster | April 03, 2011 at 02:09 AM
Rickster,
The thing about social conservatives is that while they want traditional values, they cave in whenever a woman shames them into going along with feminism.
For example, they have a pro-life position on abortion, but they think that abortion only happens because an evil man callously abandoned the innocent, angelic woman. Nothing could be further from the truth - many women actually try to trap men into pregnancy to get money from him.
4 times as many men are in jail today as in 1980, mostly for non-crimes, and mainly due to social conservatives wanting to appear 'tough on crime'. Hence the bogus 'deadbeat dads' myth, the myth that only men are capable of spousal violence, etc.
For more about how social conservatives actually propagate feminism, go to The Spearhead and ask a lot of questions about social conservatism in the comments.
Also, read this (particularly the last part) :
http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/11/why-republicans-will-not-shrink-government.html
Posted by: The Futurist | April 03, 2011 at 03:10 PM
Thank you for pointing me towards that article. It makes a lot of sense since quite often people don’t know who they are voting for in the polls and are often mocked for getting what they thought their candidates policies were, completely wrong (such as with our recent election for presidency), after voting for the wrong side.
It also makes sense as to why all these unfair laws are getting passed that are indeed ruining our way of life. Most people are sensible enough to follow the conservative creed (traditional values) which is why conservatives get elected to hold more positions in the government, and yet they fail to follow through with their intended agenda. Its true we need to start winning more in the supreme court where all laws regardless of what the public vote tally is, can either be shot down or approved.
I also liked how you pointed out that people give themselves labels which are often far from the truth. I see that with conspiracy theorists, who dub themselves ‘truthers’ when quite often what they seek is in fact the opposite.
The kind of 'Chivalry' conservatives claim also reminds me of the guy who constantly mooches money off of his friends (liberals and feminists) and when finally a friend (the conservative) says no, he responds with the what-happened-to-you-man-you-used-to-be-cool speech, to which the friend replies “I‘m still cool,” and gives in, the whole time getting screwed.
Posted by: Rick | April 04, 2011 at 10:08 PM
I'm writing my thesis on men's perception of misandry and it's possible affect on leadership emergence. This is great stuff, I'm going to reference you. I'm glad I found your article, great job putting this together.
Posted by: kris | April 13, 2011 at 08:53 PM
Thanks, kris,
Are you female? Please consider fighting against misandry even after you defend your thesis, and becoming a regular commenter on the blogs linked in the article (roissy, The Spearhead), as well as this one.
This is an important issue.
Posted by: The Futurist | April 14, 2011 at 02:14 PM
I found this post again after reading it months ago. This is still one of the best written, comprehensive analyses of the feminism situation. Good job. I wish such knowledge could become more widespread somehow.
Posted by: mysteraaa | May 07, 2011 at 12:53 PM
I almost cried several times while reading this article. Thank you for doing such thorough research and eloquently describing what I am always trying to explain to people. I love this. Feminists should take notes from Heinlein... be useful, nice, and unashamedly female.
Posted by: nothopelessyet | June 02, 2011 at 09:40 PM
The chart of birth rate is interesting...
It shows that the feminists do not want reproduction.
And the population of Muslims is growing well.
Feminism can only destroy their own society.
Posted by: Dulantha | June 08, 2011 at 02:12 AM
You need to think on terms which go much deeper, because after 60 years of empirical observations of experiencing life in a Commune, life in a totalitarian society whether it be by name of Communism or Democracy under a form of quasi Capitalism to meet the essential needs of society.
In addition, I have studies as an avocation & vocation for most of my life the theoretical underpinnings of many of the western & eastern philosophies coupled with socially engineered processes of cognitive science which have & now govern these societies to keep order & maintain the essential needs of their lives, it is my firm belief your Hypothesis falls under a more appropriate heading by looking at the institutions that govern western societies & now the global population, which is rooted in "Capitalism" that began 400+ years ago to replace Feudal Order at the dawn of the European Enlightenment, evolving eventually after World War Two into today's newer version of a much more insidious form of Neoliberal Capitalism we have today.
It is the socially engineered processes rooted in cognitive science to control human behaviors on a global applied basis to mans consciousness after almost 400 years of Capitalism in Western Society which has permeated into every aspect of man's cognitive functions *manufactured consent) that your hitting mostly on more anecdotal evidence & superficial causation that are essentially by-products not root cause of origination of how this nation & now the globe has moved onto to live to a new form of Human Capital exploitation to serve class distinctions through socially engineered processes rooted in cognitive science.
It is by design to serve a very small group of people who control 65% of the worlds wealth. Start looking around you in everything that you do, all of your energies what their spent on, what drives 98% of what you do & why & underneath all of lies not only Maslow's Hierarchy of needs which controls essentially those human energies but to who & what it is your serving to the need of Human Capital.
It's a big subject & I will be back as I just sideswiped your website. I have written a more comprehensive essay I posted on Huffington Post a couple years ago when looking at the financial crisis & what really caused it.
Posted by: Robert Sharpless | June 24, 2011 at 06:06 PM
Good article. You illustrate very well how the leftist assault on marriage is an assault on civilization.
However:what I see is not so much men getting the raw end of the deal more than women, but the traditional, faithful people suffering at the hands of those living out the feminist model, of either sex. I am in my fifties, I have a law degree, and I have witnessed quite a few divorces in my immediate circle; and the ones who get scr##ed are not necessarily men or women, it's the one following the traditional rules who gets the shaft. The adulterer who wants out gets its all her/his own way.
For women of the traditional,faithful homemaker variety, apparently 20, 30 or even 40 years of help, work, sacrifice and companionship mean nothing and are worth very little, financially. And yes, unless they have family money, the women I know are hereafter either poor or in straightened circumstances for the rest of their lives.
Similarly, men who behave themselves and love their families are forced to watch another man take his place, sometimes in his own house (also enforced by our modern courts) , with the corresponding danger to his children. In addition, to add insult to injury, he is expected to finance this appalling arrangement.
I don't think it's worse for men or women per se, I think it is worse for men or women who play by the old, un-feminist rules. What I have observed, in modern day divorces- is that the bad guy wins - every time. Be it male or female. The laws are now set up to make it so.
Note: by the way, the reason women file for the divorce more often has little to do with her being the initiator- it is common procedure among divorce lawyers to have the women file first (at least in my state). I have no idea why- maybe someone can enlighten us on that.
Posted by: Mary | July 11, 2011 at 06:57 AM
Mary,
It is not the lawyer who 'makes' the woman file for divorce first. Why is the woman going to the lawyer in the first place? That itself indicates that it is the woman who has started the process.
And despite what you say about traditional people getting the shaft, the costs of divorce are fully borne by the man, who has to pay money to the woman even if HE did not want divorce, and loses access to his own children.
You are correct in pointing out that women who divorce for short-term gain end up in poverty in the long run. This is the outcome of their decision.
Posted by: The Futurist | July 11, 2011 at 01:57 PM
This is exactly why we are making our film. My husband and I wrote a screenplay with the mission of changing how people view men and fathers. Our current family court system is prejudicial against fathers, and is corrupt in general. But to change the system, we first have to change how we see men. Seeing fathers as enept at best and downright evil at worse is the most normal way our media represents men. http://thatsnothowitsdone.com is in direct opposition to the current view of men. Check out our trailer by clicking on the yellow button on the top left.
Posted by: Melody Brooke | July 12, 2011 at 02:20 PM
Melody Brooke,
Excellent! This is exactly what I was hoping to see someone, someday, undertake.
Please connect with the various leaders of the anti-misandry movement :
Dr. Helen : drhelen.blogspot.com
Bill Price, who runs The Spearhead : www.the-spearhead.com
Connecting with these three will greatly increase the exposure to your film.
Please also check out my anti-misandry flyer campaign :
http://www.singularity2050.com/2011/01/the-time-has-arrived.html
If your film is sufficiently direct in confronting misandry, I will personally spend dozens of hours posting flyers in high-impact locations to promote it.
Posted by: The Futurist | July 12, 2011 at 04:20 PM
and what happens if the bubble doesn't pop? if it does what will it look like what are the signs?
Posted by: Zac | August 06, 2011 at 08:35 AM
Socialism is not a tyranny.Feminism starts in U.S. which is pure capitalist country.Socialism has nothing to do with feminism and tyranny.
Posted by: Kris | August 22, 2011 at 12:15 AM
Can you please fix the Roissy references in your article? Roissy's blog is gone, but every single content is hosted in heartiste.wordpress.com
Posted by: Cleaner | September 02, 2011 at 04:31 PM
Robert Sharpless | June 24, 2011 at 06:06 PM
I live in an apartment with very modest rent. It has central air.
I have a computer that the WW2 computer guys couldn't even dream about. I have a 15 Mbs pipe to that computer - about $50 a month. I have a refrigerator. Something a King couldn't have in 1850. Hot and cold running water. etc. etc. etc.
Them rich guys sure have ripped me off.
Posted by: M. Simon | September 06, 2011 at 10:48 AM
I'm not sure that sharia law will be a fallback point for men in America, largely due to the stresses between the muslim world and America due to the War on Terror.
Maybe America is even further away than the rest of the world when it comes to battling misandry.
Still, I'm sending this article to people I know from various message boards as well as on facebook. Hopefully one of the major news TV networks gets a hold of this. There's no such thing as bad publicity, after all.
Posted by: Sam | September 16, 2011 at 12:24 PM
The Futurist,
thank you for your article and predictions.
I agree with you in many stuff. Specially this one:
"Kick a friendly dog enough times, and you get a nasty dog. "
On TV, it is quite frequent to see a woman kicking a man on the balls, and everybody is laughing at him. Just reverse the roles, and put a man kicking a female on the crotch, and you'll see no one laughing, and probably some cops coming to arrest the guy. I find this as a double standard. If a woman is kicking a dog (a man), then it is funny, and it is encouraged by the feminist driven media. Violence, abuse, and aggression should not be encouraged for any gender.
What totally hit the nail on me was when you talked about how men work at full capacity just to be able to marry and provide for his family. I currently have a 8-6 job, and I also work on side jobs on my spare time. I probably work more than 85 hours a week, with almost very few opportunities to do things I like. My goal: getting a better life, and be financially capable of sustaining a family. Due to the state of the economy, it is impossible for me and my partner to be able to afford marriage [we live with our parents respectively][she wants a legal wedding, with very few people, not a 50K wedding], but we are working to be able to do it. I don't live in the US, and marriage here is not a ripoff as long as you have a prenup agreement. If I were to be an American citizen, I wouldn't feel that motivated for a marriage, neither for sustaining a family, because it is financially too risky. You loose on whatever you look at: whether is child care or alimony, men have to pay the ex-wife money [almost] perpetually just because her having a "Golden Uterus". Emotionally it is also risky, because you don't even get the custody of your children. It is a WIN-LOOSE situation, in which men seldom win.
I have known femists, feminist boys, and White Knights, and I always find their ideas creepy. Instead of having evolved thoughts, they just have very retrograde thinking, such as "women don't need men at all" , or "all men are sh*t", or "all men should be castrated". I really don't know what have suffered this women, but I don't really think they were completely innocent on what happened to them, and I also think they got involved with the wrong dudes. They all seem to be men haters. They sometimes speak of equality and stuff, but they take every opportunity to accuse of all male being misogynists [and stuff like that], and also treat unfairly men. For them, no man is good man.
I kind of feel like if feminists are fighting for rights they already have, but they seem to want more. It would be as if the black community on the USA would be making protests to have freedom [we don't see black guys demanding freedom... because they are already free!].
I knew a guy that he called himself the most feminist of the city. He had feminist friends, he went to public demonstrations, and recited very feminist propaganda. One day, a guy from a rural area asked him what was HIV and if having sex with his wife caused HIV. The feminist guy totally went insane, and LAUGHED out loud on the face of the rural guy, and started humiliating him for being an ignorant. I kind of admired at the time that guy, because how well he spoke his ideas. At that instant, this guy lost all my respect, as well as feminisim as a whole. I walked towards the rural guy, and explained him everything I knew about HIV. I kindly answered each and every single question he had about it. Without me explicitly telling him something to the feminist guy, I shut the fucked him. I helped this rural guy because I didn't want him, nor anyone, to get an STD like this, and also, indirectly, I'm helping his future female partners by educating this guy. Is a WIN-WIN situation. The kind of mentality that this feminist boy haves [and as well as many feminists] is a WIN-LOOSE mentality. I did what a thinking male beta would have done. I never believed any shit of what this guy told ever after.
When you talk about the Venusian Arts, I must confess I have read a couple of books about it. And, unfortunately, I haven't been able to put into practice this knowledge, so I don't know what it is to use it with most of the girls. Nevertheless, I have been applying some techniques with my girlfriend (we've been together for 5 years), and they seem to be working. I'm totally against manipulating persons, and the Venusian Arts can be used to improve your current monogamous relationship [without manipulation], or to manipulate woman to get in your bed. Even those who write the books say that they are against manipulating women. Before having a girlfriend, I felt like crap when seeing the alpha males getting most of the woman to bed.
When talking with feminists, they tell me that I'm a misogynist because I don't agree with their ideas. The don't seem to know the definition of misogynist, which is "a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women". I have never hated woman, nor disliked it, nor mistrusted them, nor mistreated them, ever. But that doesn't mean that I must agree with every idea they have, or if they feel perpetually like victims [even if they have not had bad experiences with men before ¬¬'].
Thank you very much for your insights sir ! :)
Posted by: OpenlyBeta | September 21, 2011 at 01:09 PM
This.
Posted by: Brokan | October 05, 2011 at 09:04 AM
Socilaisum is running rampid as the world productivity is in decline. It is as if a fast runner has stoped for a slower runner to catch up and has waited so long that he has lost his passion for running!
Posted by: Leonard Dixon | October 10, 2011 at 12:46 AM
the author has many good points but with all things we all have different opinions. I happen to agree that misandry has ruled often in the shadows for over thirty years in the guise of womens rights, new laws to help society etc etc.
The misandry bubble is a great title and so true. We are seeing it start to get ready to pop already today just look at all the "man up" verbage all over the media now and that will only get louder as America realizes it needs the strength and conviction of men, and finds new ways to insult and shame men.
After Vietnam America and western countries were in an unprecedented period of peace and relative prosperity some call Pax Americana. This period of great stability seemed to make liberalism strong and conservatives weak. Feminism, yes feminazism grew like a weed throughout cultures because there was no great struggle going on and men could easily be forgotten, put aside, shamed, and robbed.
With the world economy just starting to crack, and perhaps in 10 to 20 years all hell will break loose. You will see all those liberals, feminists and man haters run for the nearest safety net held by men. But when the bubble pops dont think men will be appreciated or living it good. No society will treat men like dogs to do all the dirty work in the chaos and all you will hear is "man up" and "be a man" as they are marched to fight, work and die for their country.
I hope i am wrong and our nations learn to respect and appreciate men, fathers and husbands again.
Posted by: GDS | October 13, 2011 at 04:25 PM
Men have been born with the innate ability to keep sex separate from our emotions. Most girls do not have this ability. Once you have sex with a girl, she starts heavily investing herself in you. But it's up to you to keep your emotions well guarded when dealing with sluts. For most semi-intelligent blokes who've had at least some action in his life, this is quite easy to do. But it's not so easy for a young guy with his first few lays. This is when he might put his heart and soul into a bad apple (read: slut). He will get burned and then learn from it.
The real morons are the guys who don't learn and invest themselves again in a another slut and possibly marry her. Then they lose a lot more than their hurt feelings - they could be stuck with alimony, child support and even a lost house. Now that's a lesson they wont forget!
Learn some game theory and see how your mindset changes completely. You will be in power and every girl will just be another social experiment and possibly another conquest when you get good at it. You will understand women better than you can possibly imagine and use this new-found power to your benefit socially and in your personal life.
Posted by: nicenthic | October 15, 2011 at 02:47 PM
The Futurist, I really hope you're right about the misandry bubble. I mean I hope it will burst and not go on and on like North Corea.
BTW, some men do not feel very strongly about being cuckolded, as long as they don't get scammed financially. Wife-swapping was organized cuckoldry, and it worked for the men and women who practised it in the heydays (80s and 90s).
Posted by: Jack | October 17, 2011 at 11:35 AM
"rising crime ?" I think you need to check your facts. Crime rates in America are at a 40 year low despite high unemployment and rising levels of poverty. I'm thinking if you got this wrong what else in your article is just your perception ?
Posted by: Roger Holmes76 | October 21, 2011 at 07:02 AM
For those who want to read further I'll provide a forward link to an article that the same author has posted on the same subject one year later to see where we are at right now.
http://www.singularity2050.com/2011/01/the-time-has-arrived.html
Posted by: Father Marker | October 23, 2011 at 06:33 AM
The most glaring example of misandry is the condemnation of female genital mutilation while male genital mutilation is deemed acceptable, even a joking matter. Women are sacred, and men are fit to be cut apart.
Posted by: Brad | October 23, 2011 at 12:46 PM
I have to agree that this is indeed an impressive piece of work...in the same way that http://www.timecube.com/ is an impressive piece of work. It is impressive in the sheer breadth of dissociated, schizophrenic, ranting. I fear for my sanity having waded in these lunatic waters...
Real men don't anxiously obsess over their masculinity like this.
Posted by: A Hermit | November 03, 2011 at 06:50 AM
The author has wasted his time. The points he made about India are a blatant lie. This whole article is a sham. If you hate women so much please do us a favor and remain single the rest of your life. Believe me no woman is going to 'compete' with others for you even if she is a 'dying beauty in her 30s'. Then lets see just how brave you are to lead a life like that. When you are old and lonely lets see you waving the flag of 'male superiority'. At that time you'll be desperate for a female companion (assuming you a straight) and will more than willingly drop your 'male chauvinist act'. That goes for all men who share this authors point of view. BTW are these comments written by the author himself?
Posted by: Divya | November 03, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Divya,
Your entire comment is the most childish of shaming language, which actually was pre-empted in the article. The reason you are so full of projection is because no man wants you, and thus you are bitter.
You are troubled because the article is true, and you know it (which is why you cannot debate specific points).
You are way too uninformed to comment on this topic, especially the parts about India.
Posted by: The Futurist | November 03, 2011 at 01:50 PM
A Hermit,
Your shaming language is pretty unoriginal, and has been pre-empted in the article.
Why so insecure? You are in fact so insecure that you want to let blatantly anti-male laws exist simply because you think it will someday get a woman to like you (hint : women hate suckups like you).
Posted by: The Futurist | November 03, 2011 at 02:12 PM
Yes, any patriarchy works, and I believe it is a societal design that is more in keeping with the natural innate character of the human race. Ancient Feminazi societies such as the Sauromatians/Amazonians as described by Herodotus, never produced great empires, philosophical schools of thought such as the Greek schools of Aristotle, Plato, and others, or great scientists. Feminazi cultures have never produced beautifully engineered pyramids or earth-moving religions. Female-centric societies always have reduced birthrates, so in six or seven generations, male-centric societies accumulate a much larger population that eventually overwhelms any matriarchy with a lower birthrate. Even now, we see predictions of a Moslem majority in Canada in 50 years, and this trend can be seen in other female-centric countries in the Western world.
Another point that is significant when you research ancient Feminazi/man-hater societies is that they all survived on the enslavement of men. There is the story of one Amazonian queen who removed one eye of each male slave, and had the thumbs of the male slaves cut off, so they couldn't hold swords or spears well enough to rebel. This kept them easily controlled. Today's enslavement of men includes "Alimony Slavery", taxation bondage (taxes that go to support female-centric government programs, etc.), not-based-on-true-need child support, divorce settlement robbery of a man's wealth, men being used as cannon fodder in wars (men are about 98% of war deaths), men being brainwashed into doing the back-breaking work of society, and a lot of other ways that men are enslaved. It is time for men to have their own liberation or revolution since all the other groups in society have had theirs. Gays and Lesbians came out of the closet and got liberated, Feminazis came out of the closet and got billions in taxpayer money, so now men need to get liberated from the shackles of our current Feminazi Gynocracy. When will men be free?
Posted by: Masked Writer | November 09, 2011 at 12:14 AM
Im late to this great essay. I just have 2 questions for you:
1. dont you think the technology factor will simply get better at covering up the TRUTH? Right now it seems like there is stil a lot of opposition from both men and women regarding the misandry factor.
2. With regards to leanring about women, one writer Esther Vilar who worte The Manipulated Man wrote some rather horrible vthings about women, and wanted to know if you are familiar with that book and if you agree with her assertions?
Please post vhere, and thanks in advance.
Posted by: Nik | November 17, 2011 at 06:27 PM
Nik,
1) Technology increases information flow, and the side that is dependent on clamping down the flow of information always loses out the side that strengthens from the free flow of information.
So technology ultimately works against misandry.
2) Not familiar with it. I am not anti-woman, but rather an observer who points out that 99% of women and about 33% of 'men' would rather harm men to give benefits to women, than have a truly fair society.
Posted by: The Futurist | November 17, 2011 at 07:14 PM
There is indeed a men's movement. Anyone who thinks not has no clue to the status of men today. Any group of men, organized with leaders, will quickly find its leaders in jail for false charges, or sleeping under bridges from unemployment. So, men cannot have a conventional organization, period.
The men's movement today is fighting the only way it can, simply opting out of the traditional role, plus of course men like me who live in other countries.
Here are the marriage statistics for recent years.
Number of Marriages per 1,000
Unmarried Women Age 15 and
Older, by Year, United States:
1922 99 (found on Web)
1960 73.5
1961 72.2
1962 71.2
1963 73.4
1964 74.6
1965 75.0
1966 75.6
1967 76.4
1968 79.1
1969 80.0
1970 76.5
1972 77.9
1975 66.9
1977 63.6
1980 61.4
1983 59.9
1985 56.2
1987 55.7
1990 54.5
1991 54.2
1992 53.3
1993 52.3
1995 50.8
2000 46.5
2004 39.9
2007 39.2 (Rutgers 2009)
2008 37.4 (Rutgers 2009)
2009 36 (UVA 2010; project moved from Rutgers)
UK is at 18, and NZ is at 28.
If you don't think this is hurting feminism, and will not eventually have women listening to men, well, I am sorry for you.
This does not include large numbers of men who are simply leaving the Anglosphere. Several years ago, the UK census announced there were one million British men missing. They lied. They actually could not find two million men, but simply declared half of them were probably there.
Yes, there is a men's movement, and it is doing the only thing it can do without the F-16's being sent in.
Posted by: Piegrande | November 22, 2011 at 05:32 PM
Piegrande,
No. Dalrock has statistically proven that there is no marriage strike in the US.
And no, there is very little real Men's Activism. And I say that as someone who greatly wishes there *were* real activism.
There is no Men's Rights Movement. It is a proto-movement, but is not a movement.
Posted by: The Futurist | November 22, 2011 at 09:12 PM
I personally don't buy dalrock's article that the marriage strike. I read the article Im not convinced. I believe that the strike is definitely on
Posted by: Bart | November 23, 2011 at 05:45 PM
You've had a lot of sex with attractive women.
Therefore your argument is far more valid than your celibate critics.
Posted by: iraqowns | December 06, 2011 at 06:35 PM
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Depression-Slump-2008-ebook/dp/B006JY45ZC
You can check this out. We are in a long term slump.
The drastic changes in incentives of marriage and divorce has had a drastic effect on marriage and family life.
This has created a new fast growing underclass of poor.
Posted by: Joe American | December 22, 2011 at 09:43 PM
While your points on feminism having become misandrism are true, this is not the fault of the left or socialism. Socialism did not cause the misandry bubble, but rather misandrists have exploited social policies for their own benefit. When divorced single mothers get government assistance, it is called welfare, yet when men ask for social equality, it is immediately grouped in with communism and considered a threat to the ruling class. This attack on socialism is exactly why the wages have stagnated since the Reagan era, and why housing is increasingly expensive and out of reach. Debt is good for wall street. Men's rights are not. Just like how infant circumcision is good for health insurance companies, but horrible for the men who have to bear its consequences.
Posted by: Jordon | December 23, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Jordon,
Feminism could not exist without massive government spending (most of which is a tranfser from men to women). If government spending were to be slashed, feminism would shrink by that proportion almost immediately.
Posted by: The Futurist | December 23, 2011 at 03:24 PM
TFH:
I just completed a stereoscopic 3D viewing setup for my computer. As I was browsing a site with sample stereoscopic videos, I came across this one.
http://www.3dvisionlive.com/3d_video/miya-3d (You'll need Silverlight to view this)
It's a Russian production and obviously also meant to be viewed with shutter glasses, but the acting is decent enough for you to tell what's going on.
The video is a bit surreal and can't be taken completely literally, but it mirrors your VR tech thesis. This video manages to display some of the nuanced aspects that you have described of the Second Horseman, especially with regard to the physical attractiveness of a real woman vs a virtual one.
Posted by: Eincrou | January 04, 2012 at 05:35 PM
I am a case study, fitting the bill of the beta-white-knight misled male thinking chivalry had worthy recipients out there.
Check my cellphone bill one evening and see over a hundred calls to one number.
Its an old high-school "just-a-friend" on facebook.
They talk, secretly meet for lunch, possibly have physical encounter.
The marriage between cheating spouse and I is in its ninth year, and we have a nine year old child.
Upon discovery of "elevated attachment" to this other man, my now ex-wife files for divorce, and after years of overspending and high credit card bills being racked up in community property, despite my agonizing requests to have her stop spending, I suddenly find myself responsible for over 15K worth of debt that combing through years of statements could clearly indicate the true benefactor of those bills.
I find myself facing many realizations.
1.) I have been reduced to a part time father, seeing my child in a drastically reduced capacity. My status is stripped away, the efforts of a decade of labor washed away, and the parental link between father and child is severely hindered by distance and confusion.
2.) I am suddenly in the position to have to locate, acquire financing for, and meet court obligations of location, a suitable form of shelter for myself and my child.
3.) No money exists for defense divorce lawyers, so within the biased scope of what a betrayed husband is allowed in courts, I must find some way to see my kid more.
I shuffle and trade money for time.
4.) My exwife earns appx. 30% more than I do every year, capable of tripling her retirement contributions due to the new "income" mandated by the state.
5.) She is currently fucking a man that lives across the street from the home I just purchased and moved into, so I have the added pleasure of seeing her vehicle over at his house. Yes, I remember replacing the brakes on that car, putting the roof rack on, oil changes, maintenance, repairs...
The old homestead sits amongst knee high grass in the yard. Unkept and dirty. The ex's mother now lives with her due to her own inability to manage money. Their two incomes, in one household, and I must still pay for support, with my lesser income.
I pay child support nonetheless as it appears to be for the best interests of the child, however I actually have physical custody for appx 50% of the time, as agreed between the ex and I formally. Food, gas, utilities, all are required at the same level as when she is with her mother the other 50% of the time.
Men like me find themselves awash in credit card debt, because it is not legal to strangle your wife into curbing her spending habits. Family emergencies occur, no money is available to address the emergency, and further credit debt is incurred. Spiraling into bankruptcy, without any recourse, I ultimately find myself somewhat relieved to at least have plugged the leak (i.e. divorcing the spender), but have nothing to protect myself legally thru the divorce or hiring of an attorney. The state gave her the title of primary conservator automatically, because sleeping around and infidelity is obviously not related to ones parenting skills?
So, as Ive heard so many times before, under the paramount effort of doing whats "best for the children" a father, having been the victim of infidelty by his wife, is suddenly thrust into or nearly into bankruptcy, is cut off from an effective and consistent presense in his childs life, is suddenly pushed into a game of competition for his childs love and affection with whomever the exwife decides to fuck around with, and must see pictures of his children sitting on their new "step-dad's lap" with happy smiles on their faces.
Clearly there is no competition financially, as the ex-wifes income has been boosted by support payments, and further advanced by the aid of the newest fling she involves herself with. One day after I pay off all this debt, I may be able to save up for a trip to Disney for my kid, but by that time, her mom would have probably taken her five times, and by the time I get any of this paid off, the kid will be in her twenties anyways.
Yes, I have considered suicide. Quite seriously.
I have no avenue of escape from the mountain of financial obligations I have suddenly incurred, whilst in tandem, watching my income reduced to hobbling levels and given to the woman that created this entire situation for me.
Chivalry is long dead. It is a wasted effort. How I had hoped so dearly that I had found someone different... sucker..
Posted by: Masted | January 05, 2012 at 08:40 AM
Futurist, the first time I read 'The Misandry Bubble' I said to myself: "Everybody must read this and realize the truth".
Almost one year later, I spent eight days translating your article on spanish and today, It is online for all the spanish talking people.
_______
Futurista, la primera vez que leí La Burbuja de la Misandria me dije a mí mismo: "Todo el mundo debería leer este y descubrir la verdad".
Hoy, casi un año después, y luego de haber pasado ocho días traduciendo su artículo, ya se encuentra en línea para que todos los hispano parlantes puedan leerlo.
Posted by: Transmillenium | January 29, 2012 at 03:40 PM
Transmillenium,
Eight days! I am honored! Thanks for doing that.
Posted by: The Futurist | January 31, 2012 at 12:11 PM
What the article doesn't mention is that males have tried to bribe women into putting up with their wars and other BS by "promises" to take care of them. Or maybe, we'll support you on $100 a month so you don't compete with us and take our $1000 a month job. Males made the laws that gave women crappy and unreliable bennies, and they want to blame us for taking them. Statism is the problem, you stupid males. Freedom is the solution. CASTRATE THE NATION STATE...
Posted by: Carol Moore | January 31, 2012 at 08:14 PM
Carol Moore,
'Their' wars? Are you aware of how many wars Hillary Clinton has started (Libya, etc.)?
Women are paid more than men for the same job, btw.
The rest of your comment is so incoherent and laden with projection and misandry that it proves the whole point of The Misandry Bubble.
Posted by: The Futurist | February 01, 2012 at 12:26 AM
This article appears to have been written by a "beta-male" with a huge inferiority complex and fear of women, probably related to some mommy issues. Honestly some of the most poorly researched string of words ever put together in the English language, with incomprehensibly flawed logic to boot. This is the very definition of chauvinism - and now the male chauvinists of the world have a little forum that they can go to and harp on women as revenge for whatever scorn they have suffered.
Just one telling example out of many: when the author talks so positively about the Indian system of marriage, which protects against the female fleeing at the first signs of distress, which is apparently a common "psychological response" of the ENTIRE gender.
Your arguments are based on stereotypes under the guise of "primal nature." None of these claims have any basis in reality and only use the most extreme, inflated statistics (no citations I noticed).
On a positive note - it is fitting that you have labeled yourself as a Futurist: an openly and unapologetically misogynistic group that wrote crazed manifestoes.
Posted by: This article is such crap | February 05, 2012 at 06:19 PM
Your unoriginal shaming language was already pre-empted by the article, yet you repeated the same parroting since you lack the intelligence to do better.
Misogyny is imaginary. Misandry is real. And this article has been well-received by some big-name people (linked) with no corresponding condemnations from other big-name people.
with incomprehensibly flawed logic to boot.
YOU talk about logic? LOL! A feminist talking about logic is like an obese person claiming expertise in how to win swimsuit competitions.
Oh, and having sex with a lot of women (as I have) does not increase respect for women. Quite the opposite in fact.
None of these claims have any basis in reality and only use the most extreme, inflated statistics (no citations I noticed).
There are tons of citings and stats with sources linked. Your outright lie is merely an emotional response to your incapacity to debate logically (let alone provide stats).
Your reaction proves that the article is exposes some deep-cutting truths and is exposing the evil hate cult of feminism. More, please!
Posted by: The Futurist | February 06, 2012 at 07:49 PM
I agree with you absolutely 100%, especially about marriage and divorce. I saw it happen to my father and my uncle in their marriages when I was a little boy. I'm 26 years old now and I have NO DREAMS of ever marriage, it's very sad....
Posted by: 26 year old guy | February 15, 2012 at 06:25 PM
You want to do something about politics AND crime? Do something about PTSD.
There is a political party that caters to PTSD sufferers (drug users, the sexually ambivalent, the sexual deviant etc. ) the Democrat Party. Now I don't object to any of those behaviors from a principled stand point. They are adaptations.
What I do object to is that the Right is doing exactly zero to dry up the wellspring of its opposition. Child abuse.
Oh. The Right is perfectly happy to fight the symptoms. With negative results (how will the traumatized react to further trauma?). But dry up the well? Not even under the dimmest of consideration.
Posted by: M. Simon | February 20, 2012 at 11:57 PM
I have translated the Misandry Bubble on spanish.
He traducido la Burbuja de la Misandria al Español.
Gracias Futurist (The Fifth Horseman) por este gran artículo.
Posted by: Transmillenium | February 21, 2012 at 11:17 AM
The Futurist, thanks, you know we have to spread the word to stop this misandrist cancer.
Posted by: Transmillenium | February 21, 2012 at 11:20 AM
> People married at the age of 20, and usually died by the age of 50.
This is completely wrong. The marriage claim is probably wrong - check Gregory Clark's _Farewell to Alms_ on average marriage ages in England both pre and during the Industrial Revolution! - but the real howler is the 'usually died by the age of 50'. Er, no. Check actuarial estimates even back to the middle ages - if you survived to your teens, you had life expectancies easily exceeding age 50. So not even did people not 'usually' die by 50, the majority safely survived it!
Such sloppiness doesn't merit a detailed response but eh, I have a reference handy, so might as well:
> From the table it is clear that even in the middle ages, if the person could get through childhood and early adulthood, he could expect to live to 64 or so.
http://apps.business.ualberta.ca/rfield/lifeexpectancy.htm
Posted by: gwern | February 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM
gwern,
This is completely wrong.
It is not wrong at all. People in the West married by their early 20s well into the 20th century. A woman delaying marriage past 27 was very uncommon even in 1960.
but the real howler is the 'usually died by the age of 50'.
Life expectancy in the US in 1900 was 47. Even if you take into account infant mortality, etc. it pushed it into the mid-50s. Plus, from time to time, a sizable fraction of men died in wars (which is why widows were not so rare in the old days).
Sorry, but you just don't know much about human history.
Go back and do some research.
Posted by: The Futurist | February 24, 2012 at 08:11 PM
Fantastic article.
Posted by: Ryan | February 27, 2012 at 09:38 AM
I like the gist of what i was reading. You are correct. Well done.
We must treat women as is befitting them, with kindness and support, butnot allow them to seek power over us or to tolerate insult to us. For they will do it because they want control. But they shouldnt want to control over their loved ones, nore their chivalrous wardens.
They are immature and easily impressioned, and have become twisted by corpratism, law, authority and feminism as biases. Sadly.
I heard that scientists have found woman introducing "vocal fry" into their voice for reasons unknown to them.
I know why, they are sounding more and more male-like.
Soon there will be almost no true women left. With womans voices, womans clothes and womans nature.
This is very sad to me.
Posted by: SirTwilightHerples | February 27, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Nice article
But there's an easy solution: marry Asian ;-)
Posted by: oca | February 27, 2012 at 11:38 AM
"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. "
This may be very, very, late to the party, but I am very curious about this statement of yours. Do you also believe that traditionally female functions are also as highly regarded in society? Because I have often read otherwise, in other blogs where men have castigated other men for taking on traditionally feminine roles. These "Misogynists" (I don't use this word lightly, by the way) have also used these traditional gender roles to "prove" that women are historically completely inferior to men, as these "traditionally feminine functions" did nothing to advance society as a whole, were not -doing- anything outside the home unlike with the "traditionally masculine functions". I would like your opinion on those beliefs.
Also. if it is considered alright for females to take on traditionally masculine roles, would it be alright, in your opinion, for a male to, of his own will, take on a homemaker role, or some other traditionally feminine role? As you say they should both be celebrated.
Posted by: Lisa | March 01, 2012 at 04:12 PM
Do you also believe that traditionally female functions are also as highly regarded in society?
In pre-misandrist societies, yes. Go to any poorer country, whether in Latin America, Asia, etc. and you will see how great the 80 year old grandmothers have it. They are visited by all their grandchildren all the time, are taken care of, etc. Way better than some lonely old woman in the West.
as these "traditionally feminine functions" did nothing to advance society as a whole
I don't agree with that. In fact, women in 1920 were doing things more useful to society than women of 2012. That is why chivalry existed - to reward women for doing this.
Also. if it is considered alright for females to take on traditionally masculine roles,
It is *not* alright unless they can do these roles as well as a man. Despite women in the military, they are not sent into dangerous combat situations. Female police get more people (including themselves) killed, etc.
And many traditional male roles are much worse than female roles. Working in a mine, on a dock, in a submarine, etc. is a lot worse than managing a kitchen and caring for children.
, would it be alright, in your opinion, for a male to, of his own will, take on a homemaker role, or some other traditionally feminine role?
It would be 'alright', but women tend to not be attracted to such a man, contrary to what feminists claim. Women are just not wired to be attracted to this type of role reversal.
Remember, gender is NOT a social construct, and there are very real differences in men and women. Feminists secretly know this, but are hypocritical by insisting women can do everything as well as a man, but then lobbying for special treatment/affirmative action for women all over the system.
Posted by: The Futurist | March 02, 2012 at 06:46 PM
Hi,
I've just found this article today, and have spent the last few hours reading it, and the comments. It brings up some interesting points, although I do not agree with all of them.
I really feel compeeled to comment based on one false fact that many people seem to be mentioning, and that is the false rape claims. Someone (I think The Futurist in response to another comment) said that around 41% of rape claims are false. This is not true. False rape claims are no higher then false crime rates in general. The actual rate of false rape claims is between 3-8%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#False_reporting
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2004/12/2_false_rape_st.html
http://www.theforensicexaminer.com/archive/spring09/15/
I really just had to bring that up. I did find the article to be an interesting read, and a new perspective.
Posted by: ec | March 02, 2012 at 09:37 PM
ec,
said that around 41% of rape claims are false. This is not true.
Nevermind that the article itself supports that statistic with a source. I will re-link the source here :
http://www.mediaradar.org/research_on_false_rape_allegations.php
Also, just consider the number of celebrities accused of false rape. Ben Roethlisberger, Kobe Bryant, Tucker Carlson, DSK, Julian Assange, etc.
There is no way false rape is just 3-8%, given that other crimes cannot be exaggerated in the way rape can (murder cannot be exaggerated, because the demand for a list of dead victims would be the next step).
Your sources involve 'studies' by feminist groups that seek to redefine 'rape' to an extreme distortion (like the man become boring 2 weeks after sex), in order to convert false rape into 'rape'.
Posted by: The Futurist | March 03, 2012 at 05:48 PM
Any man who can say that housework can be compressed into one hour a day has never cleaned his own home.
Posted by: Athena | March 04, 2012 at 01:16 AM
HR Lincoln, I do hope your comment about rape vs. cuckholding was a joke; If not, I hope you never have to spend time in prison as you would live to regret your words.
Posted by: Athena | March 04, 2012 at 01:21 AM
Athena,
There is a linked poll in the article in which men say that cuckoldry is something they fear even more than prison rape.
That is the point. That women, including yourself, trivialize cuckoldry, is a shameful indictment of moral emptiness on the part of these women.
Posted by: The Futurist | March 04, 2012 at 08:20 PM
The Futurist,
One of the sources I linked to (out of three, which is more then your one) included a study done by the FBI, not a feminist group. I think you really need to expand your sources, and be willing to see facts that contradict what you think. It will make your arguments better in the future
Posted by: ec | March 06, 2012 at 08:27 PM
ec,
No, I already provided a more credible source indicating that it is 40-50%. Given the large number of cases even among famous men, it is quite obvious that rape is heavily exaggerated.
And feminists are working hard to expand the definition of 'rape', in order to conceal the false rape epidemic.
Your own link shows the McDowell research showing 45% to be false. That was only whitewashed by biased feminist judges overturning them outright, and even then managed to overturn only 65% of the false accusations.
You need to read your own sources better.
It will make your arguments better in the future
My argument was just fine. It is you who were stumped by the source I provided, and cannot come to terms with the facts.
Posted by: The Futurist | March 06, 2012 at 10:10 PM
Game does not exist. Sorry, but the Internet is not reality. Also, it is 2012 and I have yet to see this "virtual porn". Honestly, you are just as fools as the feminists. You are doing exactly what the feminists want: separating the genders. Sexbots are not the answer, and neither is game. Sadly, the MRM will not be taken seriously because it is run by ignorant individuals who put their faith in technology that does not exist.
Sexbots nor virutal porn will not help humanity. The feminists have already created a birth dearth, and this behaviour just furthers it. In the end, there are two losers: and the sorest loser is men, because of their inefficient solutions to the problem.
Posted by: Shooter | March 07, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Shooter,
Game does not exist.
It does exist, and I personally have benefited greatly from it.
To be in denial of Game is merely the reaction by those who cannot do the work required to improve themselves. They pretty much repeat the same memorized, illogical lines.
As the article said, 80% of men just cannot grasp Game, and you seem to fit the bill.
Posted by: The Futurist | March 07, 2012 at 09:40 PM
Yes, this is what I like to read.
IT's really sad that feminists deny that misandry is even a thing.
Hell, it's not even in recent dictionaries anymore.
Posted by: Jacob Dixon | March 30, 2012 at 11:16 PM
I realise I'm 2 years late but it appears your entire argument is thus: the onus for the stability and functionality of societies and the civilization comprised by them must necessarily be borne by the female gender through the subjugation of her wants, needs and desires.
I'm sure you appreciate that like any other grossly unfair allocation of responsibility this could only exist for so long. Feminism was the inevitable and eventually quite brutal backlash and although that has indeed wrought some terrible consequences for all of us (women included), there was never any logical basis for women to be placed in such a position in the first place - beyond the mere facts of our biology, which we easily transcended (or, at least, counterweighted) many years ago.
In other words, if patriarchy mandated women to be the guardians of wider social morality, if we entrusted them with such a burden, we must also have understood that women had the concomitant right to fuck it all up, and bring dissolution to the traditional family if they so wished.
That, however unpalatable and destructive the outcome, is logical and fair.
Posted by: Andrew Field | April 04, 2012 at 08:51 AM
Andrew Field,
is logical and fair.
It is not logical or fair. For one thing, the average woman was never systematically oppressed to a greater degree than the average men (see the first section of the article).
Also, there are solid surveys linked in the article that show women of today to be far less happy than women of 50 years ago.
Note that the current state is very unsustainable and hence transitory. A society that alienates and subjugates the productive people (mostly men) cannot persist in that state for long.
Posted by: The Futurist | April 04, 2012 at 07:06 PM
The Futurist,
It is not logical or fair. For one thing, the average woman was never systematically oppressed to a greater degree than the average men (see the first section of the article).
Every form of male oppression you discussed (labour, war and financial and legal culpability) is superficial compared to the oppression and partial extirpation of female sexual choice within our species. There have been few more wicked abberations in the history of human nature.
Female sexual selection drives evolution of advantageous characteristics in nearly all mammals. By fostering and maintaining a system where women would always be dependent on men for material resources we sought in effect to wrest this power away from them, to ensure access to sex and reproduction for almost every man regardless of his natural fitness as a mate.
Also, there are solid surveys linked in the article that show women of today to be far less happy than women of 50 years ago.
If you re-read my post I acknowledged as such. That doesn't mean it isn't "fair" in the logical sense.
Note that the current state is very unsustainable and hence transitory. A society that alienates and subjugates the productive people (mostly men) cannot persist in that state for long.
From a biological, genetic and evolutionary standpoint the most productive people are women and thus their processes of sexual selection the most vital. The genie is out of the bottle and unfortunately for substandard men everywhere it's never going back in.
Along with many men I think you are now appalled at the behaviour of modern women which informs the tone of your analysis. What you fail to understand is that women never were natural or willing moral guardians of sexual propriety in the world. They were merely paid by men to be such.
Posted by: Andrew Field | April 05, 2012 at 03:15 AM
This essay is just fantastic. Every time I read it I am reminded of the thorough and excellent work that it is!
Posted by: Trey | April 05, 2012 at 01:13 PM
This was a interesting read, both for its logical content as well as its illogical inclusions. An effect will always follow a cause, but even the closest, most constant observation will lose sight of what the original cause was.
Misandry and misogynism are not traits naturally occurring, but are learned and programmed into human behaviour from variable sources. The cause for why a woman should become misandric, or a man misogynistic cannot be clearly defined, it certainly is not down to psycho-sexual dynamics, although these are clearly affected. Misandry and misogyny are opposite sides of the same coin, with the defining bridge that spans the chasm between the two being that of 'human'...being human is the battleground between the forces of both against each other.
Misandry and misogyny are usurpations of the perceiving social mind. The terms are not attacks upon a particular man, or a particular woman, but warped perceivings upon all men, all women. As you state in your piece, if you continuously kick a friendly dog over a long enough period of time, you will eventually gain an animal that has turned unfriendly towards you. That is where the usurpation of the perceiving social mind arises, and I thus wholeheartedly agree with you...one should only judge others by the manner on how they impact upon you. No other variable need be taken into account, including 'gender'.
Unfortunately, with misandry and misogyny, gender becomes the prime focus of the abberation in the perceiving...it specifies the target of hate, but remains a psycho-social abberation, not a psycho-sexual one.
How many times have we all individually stated in our lives..."I hate women!", or "I hate men!", simply because the focus of our affection has dumped us? We don't say..."I hate that particular woman!", or "I hate that particular man!", we include the whole gender race. When we generalise like that we are using misandritic and misogynistic terms, but of course, we don't believe the statements literally, we don't run away and cloister ourselves becoming nuns or monks (although one or two may).
No, we pick ourselves up, lick our wounds, and move on without turning intensely misandritic or misogynistic. Nevertheless, such experiences do plant misandritic and misogynistic seeds, that have the potential to bloom and flower after further bad experiences with the opposite gender down through the years, which eventually taint and abberate one's perceivings of them. Misandritic and misogynistic issues become resident in all of us over time and experience, but normally do not gain any expression, do not normally warp our percievings, do not normally become destructive.
However, misandry and misogyny are insidious possessors of perspective, and the 'possessed' habituate themselves and their mindset through looping, self-reinforcing feedback, with their behavioural response mechanisms to the opposite gender adjusting accordingly to that feedback.
The way out of this condition requires therapy that intercedes in the feedback mechanisms, that turn the extreme polarity of the perceiving into a balanced one. That is what is required, but is easier written then done. Balancing the polarity will take an extremely long stay in therapy. Breaking down the walls of the misandrist or the misogynist will be extremely hard.
Posted by: Glenn | April 16, 2012 at 09:09 PM