".....But the emergence of humanness is characterized by the trimorphic, intersubjective structure of Mother-Father-Baby. This can only take place because the male now has a social (not biological) role: father, husband, protector, etc. Thus, you might say that these categories are the very "essence" of civilization.
Even on a purely practical basis, a civilization that fails to produce manly men to protect it is not long for the world. But more subtly, in psychoanalytic terms, "father" is also a symbol of the Law (in its most generic and universal sense, in that reverence for the abstract Law is one of the things that lifts us above the animals).
In contrast, the mother is mercy, which is felt, not thought. Nor could it ever be reduced to granite tablets, like the Ten Commandments. Law is always masculine.
It reminds me of when Senator Feinstein was questioning Justice Roberts at the confirmation hearings. She said something to the effect that she wanted to know how he felt, not what he thought. Or more recently, think of the supremely feminized Obama saying that he wanted justices with "empathy." I think you can see why that leads directly to the unraveling of civilization at its very foundation, for it is a passive aggressive attack on masculinity. Judicial tyranny is the result. ...."
Oh, but dontcha know, "we" are "stipulated" as living in an "Eve-flavored age" — according to the self-selected intelligentsia, whose exponent, the novelist John Knowles, put it just exactly that way:
I think it's apparent all through cultural history that when women did in the past get a slightly higher position in society, these are usually the periods of great innovation [this is news to me so far]. With all our faults, this is an extraordinary age for tearing old ideas apart and remodeling the world. [Whatta surprise.] These, to me, are very strongly — how shall I put it? — Eve-flavored periods. They're periods when you suddenly feel the underlying, almost unconscious entrance of women everywhere in society. At the root of it, it seems to me, it's women quarreling with the way men see the world, with the paternalistic, rigid, structured society, machismo society. I think women are paradoxically the more conservative sex and also the more revolutionary sex. [from the Wall Street Journal editorial page, dated Nov. 20, 1981.]Two observations: (1) What a crock; logically/epistemologically speaking, Knowles' case is "all hat and no cattle." And (2) no wonder Islamofascist males are so afraid of "females"....
Idiocy, times two, thank you very much.