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Men Behaving Badly - Why?
MND ^ | July 15, 2003 | Karl Glasson, Ph.D.

Posted on 07/15/2003 1:45:35 PM PDT by Nick Danger

Many males in western societies seem to be behaving very badly these days.

They seem to be becoming more involved with crime. They seem to be growing more dishonest. They seem to be increasingly hostile and aggressive toward others. They seem less committed to their partners and to their families. They are clearly doing less well in terms of their education. And they seem to be more pre-occupied with their own narrow self-interests than they used to be.

Why is this so?

What can possibly account for this apparent deterioration in the behaviours of western men?

Have their genes suddenly taken a dive for the worse?

Or are they simply responding to the way in which western societies treat them these days?

In my view, the major cause of what seems to be a significant deterioration in the behaviours of men is, quite simply, feminism.

Indeed, the evidence that damns feminism is overwhelming. 

The evidence shows that feminism is not only the primary cultural cause of the current-day bad behaviours of men, it is also the primary cultural cause of very many other current-day serious societal problems.

Before demonstrating to readers how it is that feminism is largely responsible for the current bad behaviours of men, it is important to understand the two following points.

1. Feminism - together with political correctness - has been the most influential ideology in western societies for the past three decades. There are no other ideologies that even come to it in terms of the extent to which it has penetrated western societies. 

Feminism has penetrated very deeply western governments, western laws, western social services, western universities, western colleges, western schools, western media, western families, western bedrooms and western minds.

And it has done so for three decades - a decade longer than even Hitler had - with far fewer resources - in which to stir up his mass hatred toward the Jews.

Feminism has been hugely influential.

And one of its main successes has been the wholesale demonisation of males.

2. Political correctness has been aggressively supported and strongly buttressed by feminists. Indeed, feminists have done their level best to promote any activity which undermines men - particularly white heterosexual ones. 

And political correctness has been a very useful weapon for them in this respect.

But the point here is this. 

Every ill that can be blamed on political correctness, can also be blamed on those who endorse and underpin it. And no group has done more to foist political correctness on to western societies than the feminists.

For three decades, the feminists and the politically correct have engaged in a wholesale onslaught against white heterosexual men.

White men have been persistently accused of being racist by highly vocal racial activists and racial minorities, and their history and their forefathers have been thoroughly undermined and blackened - to the extent that many racial activists are now demanding reparations for past slavery.

Heterosexual men have been continually portrayed as being violent, abusive, oppressors of women by mainstream feminists and a whole plethora of abuse professionals who have a vested interest in portraying men in this way.

Heterosexual men have also been represented by the beautifully orchestrated gay lobby as being bigoted and fearful of their own sexuality.

All men have been assaulted almost ceaselessly by various women's groups, children's groups, social service workers, therapists and analysts who have sought to indoctrinate the population with the view that men are abusers of children.

The ubiquitous feminist-fearing mainstream media have consistently sought to demonise and humiliate the entire male gender - a typical example of which can be seen in the recent vindictive column by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times entitled Incredible Shrinking Y.

And the all-powerful western governments together with the legal profession have almost disempowered men completely when it comes to their families, their relationships and their homes, on the grounds that women and children are often better off without them. (The Federal Bureau of Marriage? by Professor Stephen Baskerville gives a good insight into how this is being achieved.)

In view of all this, is it surprising to find that men are behaving badly?

If A keeps telling B that he considers him to be worthless, and continues to accuse him of things that he has not done, and persistently undermines him in relation to his family and to his children, and continually seeks to portray him as an abuser and an oppressor, who should be surprised if B finally turns his back on A?

Indeed, who should be surprised if B decides to give A a bloody nose?

Well. This is the kind of thing that has been going on in western societies for a long time now thanks to the wholesale demonisation of males by the feminists. 

And many millions of men are - and have been - responding to this by turning their backs on their own societies. 

Indeed, they are not only increasingly refusing to support their own societies, many are, in fact, responding by giving them a bloody nose! - crime, violence etc.

Well. Let us look at some of the reasons why western men might have become this way as a result of feminism (and, indeed, as a result of political correctness).

1. The constant feminist-inspired demonisation and denigration of men throughout the west has resulted not only in many of them feeling worthless, with the result that they now reject the worthwhile values of their own societies (with some turning to crime, drugs, irresponsible behaviours etc) it has also undermined any reason for them to shape up.

You might as well be hung for being a sheep as a lamb!

Furthermore, the ubiquitous negative descriptions of men that continually pour out of the mainstream media simply make many men feel quite entitled to behave in accordance with those very same descriptions!

For example, I once saw a headline in a newspaper complaining about the fact that, "Men do not do housework." 

As a taunt to my partner, I cut out the headline and stuck it on the notice board in the kitchen. But I added the following words underneath it. "Well, if men are not doing any housework, then neither am I!"

The point is that if men are persistently deemed to be slothful - or whatever - then many men, with much justification, will see no reason to behave any differently from the way in which they and their fellow men are being depicted. 

2. The western educational system has been so heavily biased against boys for the past few decades that they are doing very badly at school. Not only have the educationalists been using diabolically poor teaching methods (e.g. in their teaching of reading skills) but the curricula have been so feminised and politically corrected that boys quickly lose any interest that they might have had in being 'educated'. 

This, coupled with poor standards of discipline, has led to our societies having to bear the burden of having millions of undisciplined, uneducated males in their midsts.

3. The effect of feminism and political correctness in education - e.g. in the study of History - and in the mainstream media, where 'great white men of noble character' are hardly seen to exist any more means that there are few good role models for boys in their growing years. And the images of men that are daily inflicted upon young men and boys are overwhelmingly negative.

Is it surprising, therefore, that so many men actually have no real concept of what a 'good man' is?

Such men do not exist in the world that is being presented to them.

4. Thanks to the wholesale corruption of the family courts and the "no-fault" divorce laws, men no longer have any real motivation to devote most of their lives, their love, their money etc into bringing up a family. Why should they - when it can all be taken away from them at the whim of their partners?

Furthermore, prejudicial 'relationship laws' - such as those pertaining to domestic violence and child abuse etc - make men feel very insecure within their relationships.

And to add to all this there is the daily carpeting of man-hatred that pours out of the feminist-dominated media telling women and children to report their partners for abuse of some sort. 

Well. There are only two main ways in which men can deal with the relationship insecurity that all this brings about.

Firstly, they can stop caring very much about their relationships so that they are not too hurt when they eventually break down. 

Secondly, they can refrain completely from committing themselves to, or from investing in, any long-term serious ones.

And, indeed, this is exactly what the research shows western men to be doing.

5. The welfare system hotly promoted and buttressed both by the feminists and the politically correct supports single motherhood. And the same is true for the laws concerning child-support payments and alimony. 

These not only make fathers and husbands redundant, they also encourage their very own women and children to see them in exactly this way.

Men are, therefore, easily rejected, and they are often also treated with contempt.

They are, after all, redundant.

And another word for 'redundant' is, of course, 'worthless'.

6. Family and marital breakdown are the major cause of misbehaviour and poor socialisation in males. Indeed, those who are brought up without their fathers at home are far more likely ... 

... to live in poverty and deprivation

... to be trouble in school 
... to have more trouble getting along with others 
... to have health problems 
... to suffer physical, emotional, or sexual abuse 
... to run away from home 
... to experience problems with sexual health 

... to become teenage parents 
... to offend against the law
... to smoke, drink alcohol and take drugs 
... to play truant from school 
... to be excluded from school 
... to leave school at 16 

... to have adjustments to adulthood problems
... to attain little in the way of qualifications 
... to experience unemployment
... to have low incomes 
... to be on welfare
... to experience homelessness 

... to go to jail 
... to suffer from long term emotional and psychological problems  
... to engage only in casual relationships
... to have children outside marriage or outside any partnership

But feminists have always done their best to break up traditional families and to exclude fathers from them, because they believe that traditional families are oppressive to women.

And this particularly huge catalogue of societal ills that has arisen directly from their assault on marriage and family was successfully repressed by the mainstream feminist-fearing media for two decades.

7. The encouragement of immigration - legal and illegal - by the left-wing politically correct (supported heavily by feminists) has led to a breaking down of the main culture and to a large increase in the size of the criminal underclass. This, together with all the factors mentioned previously, has led to millions of young men engaging in crime or in being closely associated with others who engage in it. 

In the UK, one-third of all men have a criminal conviction. In the USA, some 2 million men are in prison and another 4 million are somehow currently involved with the criminal justice system.

8. As Lew Rockwell readers will know only too well, taxes are far too high as a consequence of the ever-burgeoning government and its ever-increasing activities. 

Well. It is women - and feminists in particular - and other 'minorities' - through their politically-corrected activists - who are the main supporters of big government and heavy taxation.

And the result of heavy taxation is that people are less motivated when it comes to working for a living and, for many men, it makes crime and sloth an even more attractive option.

Well, I could go on and make many more connections between feminism and the poor behaviours of men.

But do I really need to?

If you glance again at the 8 points above you will see that they allude to huge negative influences that impact, in some way or other, upon all males. And they each affect all males very badly indeed.

Furthermore, every single one of these huge negative influences directly arises from ideas and policies promoted and buttressed by feminists.

Indeed, feminism is the main cause of the most pressing problems facing western societies.

None of the above is to suggest that genes do not play a part in the bad behaviours of men. They surely do - just as much as they do with regard to the bad behaviours of women. And neither is it necessary to make any claims about whether children are 'born good' - and are corrupted by society - or 'born bad' - and need to be disciplined and socialised.

The point is that we do know that the way in which societies are constructed, the values that they hold, and the methods through which their aims are sought, have a great bearing on the way in which the people within them behave - e.g. just look at the effects of fatherlessness listed above.

And when an ideology has been hugely pervasive, influential and dominant for three whole decades it should not be allowed to escape from being seen as significantly responsible for the social consequences that are very clearly associated with it.

Furthermore, if western men continue to be persistently attacked, accused, vilified, undermined and demonised, disempowered within their families and discriminated against through the justice system, their behaviours are likely to grow considerably worse!

And if feminists continue to pursue their aims without regard to the way in which they are alienating millions of men, my guess is that in the not-too-distant future both they and their supporters (e.g. in the media, in academia and in government) are going to be in for a very nasty shock.

Finally, given that feminists have ruthlessly pursued their aims without regard to the well-being of men, why should men not now do the very same?

For example, why should men strive particularly hard to support their families given that some 50% of them will eventually lose them; and much else besides - with a further significant percentage remaining in unhappy marriages because they have no realistic alternatives? Why should they labour to set themselves up for so much serious hurt?

Why should men work for long hours? - particularly if they have onerous jobs and given that the state will take much of their earnings in taxes. 

Why should men with limited resources bother to save any money when their governments will tax it and subject it to significant devaluation?

Why should men commit themselves to one particular woman when so many are now available for fun and frolics?

Why should men not seek hours of pleasure from superficial pursuits - such as those deriving from their various gadgets, toys, sports and videogames? Do not women spend many of their hours gawping at celebrities and soap operas, and thinking about fashion, cosmetics and romantic fantasies?

And what, exactly, are men supposed to be aiming for?

Why should men not be aggressive or offensive toward women given that women are nowadays aggressive and offensive toward them?

Indeed, why should men pursue 'nobler' aims when these are persistently undermined by feminists and their governments?

The bad behaviours of men mostly reflect the fact that western men are now following more their own desires and their own predilections. And they are caring less about how this may affect others.

In other words, they are doing exactly what the feminist handbooks and many women's magazines have been urging women to do for years.


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To: Nick Danger
This is disgusting. Talk about passing the blame. Listen to me now. FEMINISM WAS CAUSED BECAUSE OF MEN BEHAVING BADLY!!!!!
I am no feminist by any means but I believe feminism stemmed from the lack of integrity that men started having. When men became irresponsible, cheating, dishonest, selfish...that is when women found that they had to step up to the plate and provide for their families...because the men were gone!!!

If a man shows integrity, honor, and thinks of the safety and protection of the woman before his selfish needs, he will see that the woman's feminine side is revealed. Women don't feel safe with men anymore so they have to take on the "provide and protect" traits for survival.

281 posted on 08/07/2003 6:36:16 AM PDT by sonserae
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To: sonserae
Listen to me now. FEMINISM WAS CAUSED BECAUSE OF MEN BEHAVING BADLY!!!!!

Whatever you say, dear. By the way, our civilization is going out of business. We are not replacing ourselves at a rate that would continue our little corner of the species.

We've looked into this, and it turns out that men are not able to have babies. We men realize that you women no longer want that job, but before you go, we wonder if you might suggest someone who could assist us in preventing the loss of our cultural and genetic legacy.

There's no question that you are entitled to have your very own big-screen TV's. Equality demands nothing less. Still, it seems a shame to let such a marvelously inventive and freedom-loving culture vanish from the Earth. So if you have any ideas on who else we might enlist to help us prevent that, do let us know.

In the meantime I suppose we'll have to work on machines that can do it. That's how we men solved the problem of not having wings; perhaps we can deal with a lack of wombs the same way.

In any case, you should go off and enjoy your big-screen TV and not bother your pretty little head about it. This civilization stuff is kind of our bag; we'll figure it out somehow. When we do, it will all be our fault.

282 posted on 08/07/2003 7:19:59 AM PDT by Nick Danger (The views expressed may not actually be views)
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To: sonserae
When men became irresponsible, cheating, dishonest, selfish...

You mean, since men existed.

283 posted on 08/07/2003 7:42:40 AM PDT by Lazamataz (PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)
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To: Ta Wee
"How clever! Toys! Is that what you have?"

Toys/ things, yes that's what I have. They are not me, and do not define me though. They are simply external aquisitions. "Everything" is my life and that of my kid's and grandkid's.

The article and thread simply list burdensome factors that exist, none of which are an excuse for anyone to behave badly. Some of which are imposed by the govm't. The article's conclusion is, "Indeed, feminism is the main cause of the most pressing problems facing western societies." This is false. Feminism is no more than an ideological element of socialist strategy. It's used to obfuscate and obliterate the absolutes of right and wrong. The ideas that are to be replaced by what is politically correct. ie. the subjective, not objective truth.

Behaving involves making a choice and taking action. Whether it's good, or bad depends on objective standards, not the subjective. There is no objectivity whatsoever in applying gender to any of this. Attempting to do so is either an error, or an authoritarian claim.

Most of the posts used gender allegorically, or as fact in their particular stories/descriptions, not as a cause. As far as the idea of gender having any influence on reason, decisiveness, or the ability to comprehend and apply objective morality, I find it doesn't. Without them the nitwits wouldn't have a majority to work with. It is in fact men that do impose the combat power necessary to impose the ideological crap that infests the world.

284 posted on 08/07/2003 9:46:25 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: Nowhere Man
Dear Nowhere Man:

First, I wish you the very best in your search for a good woman. They are out there, it just sometimes takes a while to find them.

Now, most folks would identify me as a "hippie," or "neo-hippie," if you prefer. I prefer non-intervention to war, am fairly liberal socially (don't infringe upon anyone else's constitutional rights, and I couldn't care less what you do), and might be seen as a "libertine" by many FReepers. Even worse, about half my wardrobe is tie-dyed.

However, I am also a very traditional young lady. I believe that marriage is a solemn promise. I believe that a man needs to be the leader of his family (else, he feels like, and becomes, less of a man), and that a good wife will submit to her husband (and that doesn't demonstrate weakness). I don't see any contradiction between having the same rights and responsibilities as any man, yet being very different from any man.

So, the moral of this story is, "Don't judge a book by its cover." :-)
285 posted on 08/07/2003 10:52:57 AM PDT by small_l_libertarian
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To: SauronOfMordor
My dad left when I was three. I married (at the grand old age of 17) a guy who left his son when he wasn't even a year old. Talk about history repeating itself. (He's not a bad person - he was just not ready to be married yet. He has since married a woman who already had 4 kids, and they had another and have been married for 10 years. Everybody needs a chance to grow up - including me.)

So, older and wiser, I take marriage much more seriously (Seriesly! I do!) This time, it's for keeps. Good or bad, happy or saaaad....
286 posted on 08/07/2003 11:15:59 AM PDT by small_l_libertarian
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To: small_l_libertarian
Just realized - that makes it sound like a shotgun wedding. It wasn't. We were married 3 years before I got pregnant. It went downhill from there.
287 posted on 08/07/2003 11:16:50 AM PDT by small_l_libertarian
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To: Nick Danger
Who says we don't want the job of having babies?
You fail to see my point. Men won't take care of women anymore so how are they supposed to stay home to have babies? The woman is just doing what she needs to survive since the men have "checked out" when it comes to responsibility. Never fear, they can always be found at the local strip club wooping it up.
288 posted on 08/07/2003 3:36:17 PM PDT by sonserae
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289 posted on 08/09/2003 7:46:20 AM PDT by independentmind
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To: Nick Danger
It's too bad this thread was moved to the Smokey Backroom. Your #266 is an excellent post. Will we be seeing as an essay of the week?
290 posted on 08/09/2003 8:47:35 AM PDT by independentmind
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To: Nick Danger

Just wanted to let you know here's one woman who agrees with you wholehartedly and have been trying to tell many the same thing. The breakdown of the family this has caused is heartbreaking. In response to Ta Wee, much of what has been said about women being chattel in the old days is simply not true. And why whenever a woman is seen in the role of being a mother and homemaker, do feminists put this down? I thought they were supposed to be for women, but it seems like feminist are only on the side of women that act like men. If women are so great, why is it so horrible to act like one? And as with any struture in society, there can be abuses of the system, but we through out the baby with the bathwater. The way God designed the family with the father as the head works the best (he might know something since he created the whole universe) but cannot work perfectly in this world since we are not perfect. And Jesus was the only true women's liberator. Our children are growing up in a no-man's-land, and it's all the feminists fault.


291 posted on 06/27/2005 10:59:52 PM PDT by countrydawn (here's wishing I could punch Gloria Steinum in the nose)
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