Posted on 05/14/2018 8:06:47 AM PDT by Liberty7732
There is a dirty little secret that the information gatekeepers of the Left block from Americans: modern feminism is slicing a path of destruction through the lives of men, women, families and society.
This is not the equal pay for equal work feminism. That has long been resolved legally and culturally. This is the anti-patriarchy modern feminism. But there is essentially no patriarchy left in America. CEOs and most other leadership-count disparities are a function of women’s individual choices — countercultural choices, at that — and even then may be temporary as women are pressured by the increasingly feminized culture to battle against their innate natures that lead toward motherhood and child nurturing.
By most studies and polls, women living the lives of the major tenets of modern feminism are distinctively less happy and less fulfilled. And they live in more danger. But where we see the real destructive success of the modern, radical feminist movement — which has worked to tilt the field in favor of women while supporting the government replacing the father in the home — is in the increasingly dire plight of the American male.
Consider the following:
⇒ American men fail and drop out of school at much higher rates than American women;
⇒ American men are far more likely to die of a drug overdose than American women;
⇒ American men are far more likely to drop out of the workforce because of addiction;
⇒ American men commit suicide at a rate several times higher than American women;
⇒ American men live on average six years shorter than American women.
⇒ American men are incarcerated at far higher proportions and are more likely to commit a felony and go to prison (although this has always been the case)
⇒ American men have lost out on tens of thousands of college scholarships because the federal law called Title IX demanded equality of all sports in universities, which resulted in the elimination of many male-only sports and the accompanying scholarships.
None of this exactly paints a picture of a patriarchal society where women are oppressed and men are triumphant as the angry feminists on or recently out of college campuses keep telling us. Not at all. The only “oppression” is nature, for which oppression is the wrong word.
“There isn’t a shred of hard evidence to support that Western society is pathologically patriarchal; that the prime lesson of history is that men, rather than nature, were the primary source of oppression of women,” writes Jordan Peterson in his blockbuster book, 12 Rules for Life.
American women, particularly professionals with college degrees, are putting off marriage and finding fewer eligible men when they are ready to settle down and get married in their 30s. This is being written about frequently now as many of these women lament that lack of marriable men at that age.
American women are having fewer children (a feminist and leftist goal) and having them later in life. Sadly, many are finding that when they finally decide they want to start a family, they either cannot find any quality men of husband potential or their biological clock has run out.
But as horrible as that may be, it is hardly the end game. Let a feminist leader put it in her own words.
“Feminism means dismantling society’s toxic ideas about what fatherhood looks like,” Emma Roller recently wrote in Splinter. “Ultimately, it means dismantling gender completely.”
Exactly. Credit Roller with honesty, although with ongoing radicalization of feminism, the activists and leaders of the modern feminist movement are pretty open about their intent to destroy, or “dismantle,” as Roller puts it.
The no-commitment sexual revolution pushed by earlier feminism combined with the “rape culture” sham and gender fluidity poison from modern feminism has virtually killed romance and the potential for healthy, monogamous relationships between husbands and wives along a wide swath of America.
Destroying the joys of motherhood and loosing the restraints on men through marriage and fatherhood, has made no one happy or fulfilled. Actually, it has increased anger and depression in both sexes.
Dennis Prager recently wrote: “The left has made innumerable women unhappy, even depressed, with its decades of lying about how female sexual nature and male sexual nature are identical — leading to a “hookup” culture that leaves vast numbers of young women depressed — and its indoctrinating of generations of young women into believing they will be happier through career success than marital success.”
Interestingly, and in line with the actual natures of men and women — natures the left and modern feminists deny or blame on the largely non-existent patriarchy — multiple studies from the European Union Eurostat arm to Australia’s Cowan University to numerous American studies have found that women (and men) who have large families are the most happy.
Harry Wallop, recently wrote in the London Telegraph about the Eurostat report on happiness among European nations, but found one element of the research to be a surprise: “… one of the most intriguing details to emerge is that families with three or more children are far more likely to be very happy than families with just one or two children, than single parents and also spinsters and bachelors.”
Wallop, who has four children and in the U.K. that is considered scandalously big, went on: “My only serious theory as to why large families may be happier is because instances of selfishness should be lower. Me, me, me can not flourish in such a crowded environment. Sharing is a daily activity you just have to get used to.”
He’s right. Selfishness does not bring about happiness. It just breeds more selfishness. Sharing, giving and sacrificing for others does produce happiness. But modern feminism is the promotion of selfishness uber alles. It’s what the woman wants, when the woman wants it and all must bend to her will — including the convenience of unborn babies.
At bottom, feminism is determined to both prove men and women are the exact same and can do all the exact same things while at the same time insisting gender is just a patriarchal cultural construct that must be abolished. It is a movement that is as inconsistent as most of modern liberalism, but perhaps more destructive, because men and women are different. And no amount of feminist theory college degrees can change that.
Despite this growing disaster for men and society as a whole, feminists, the Left, Democrats and the media continue to play the hysterically false “war on women” card. For the ideologues, it’s their identity. For the politicians, it’s a power card. For America and the West, it’s a long-term funeral procession.
Where are fathers when girls are allowed to assault their sons even to the point of kicking them in the crotch for no reason, and their sons aren't even granted the perfectly legal right to defend themselves? Fathers not only won't defend their sons, they side with the schools against their sons.
Not all of them, but they know who they are.
And then we wonder why boys are blowing up like this.
You are right.
I wonder how many are father absent these days? When my parents divorced when I was 7 yrs old it was a real rarity.
I was taught by a narcissistic arrogant mother “you’re just like your father (worst thing to be). Some at work told me women still do that to their sons today.
Later admirable “single mom” role replaced guilt and shame women faced if never married in the 50s and 60s. since then men being around was only a bother to them.
The father present families may have a browbeaten dad who was told to sit down and shut up all his life and now doesn’t risk appearing anti-feminist by speaking up. A real shame.
Feminists really are the feminazis to whom Limbaugh often refers. The he** with them and their ilk.
The question is, how badly do boys need to be treated before men finally stand up and say "Enough! You will not treat our sons like this!"?
The answer is we men need to help each other now. I agree with you.
Men can put an end to this any time they choose. And there would be a sizable chunk of women who would cheer them on if they did.
I am on your side. Please stop saying I’m not.
Your points are great.
I didn’t mean to imply you weren’t. I was just posting some additional information, not just for you but for any other readers who are interested. Yes, we do agree.
Mothers all seem to want their male children to act like little girls. Absent father, metrosexuals, no father in the picture, all play a part. But the heart of it is the bitchy women who are jealous of testosterone.
Bump for the best answer to this "war on men" whining.
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