Posted on 04/06/2018 7:07:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Women have been complaining since the original Adams family was evicted from the Garden of Eden that "A good man is hard to find." Despite radical feminist mockery of the very idea of manliness, that men are natural sexual predators, most women -- with very few exceptions -- still want one.
The #MeToo movement has nevertheless changed a lot of things in the wake of the sexual harassment-scandal season. One of them is the regard in which men are universally held by women. It often seems we're back to the '80s, when there was a similar assault on the idea of manhood and some women decried all sex as rape.
Radical feminist activists Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin were widely credited with saying that "all sex is rape" and "all men are rapists." They both deny the statements, but Dworkin conceded that she did say, "Penetrative intercourse is, by its nature, violent." We hear versions of the sentiment in #MeToo accounts of women talking about their encounters with boorish men.
One recent essay in The New York Times was titled "The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido." The headline, at least, was wrong. If there's one phenomenon that has not been "unexamined" in America over these past many months since Harvey Weinstein was exposed as the monster in every woman's bad dreams, it's the male libido. It has been endlessly examined, dissected, scorned and denounced.
Sebastian Junger, in a perceptive op-ed in National Review magazine, recalls how a friend once told him: "(B)eing a man meant two things: taking care of your loved ones and burying your dead. Everything flows from that."
Many men, encouraged by the culture, share more economic and child care responsibilities with women. But a natural protectiveness still emerges in violent situations, and women have been known to cherish and celebrate it.
"The definition of a man," says anthropologist Joyce Benson, "is someone you can count on when the enemy comes." Throughout history, men have demonstrated they are willing to put the safety of others above their own, usually their wives and children, but sometimes strangers. This is a male instinct that often emerges at an early age.
When a gunman killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012, four of the slain were young men who shielded women with their own bodies. The female species instinctively understands (and appreciates) that instinct. A British experiment in 2015 found that when women looked at photographs of men, they consistently chose men with combat medals as the more attractive. In a different study, women were attracted to men with facial scars.
Harvey Mansfield, a professor at Harvard and author of a book titled "Manliness," thinks it's hardly a coincidence that a "raw type of manliness" emerged in politics with the discounting of manliness. He notes provocatively that President Donald Trump has a raw manliness, such as that found in Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, "who are rough and gross and discourteous."
Raw manliness, he tells Tunku Varadarajan in The Wall Street Journal, is an invitation to the vulgar, and Trump's supporters "rather like and appreciate his vulgarity and his baseness, his impulsiveness." If women don't like the vulgarity, the crude and the rude, there are many women who nevertheless seem to appreciate the punching back against politically correct assumptions of manhood overly tamed.
Professor Mansfield echoes others' observations that Trump's unexpected triumph was not born of racial reaction to former President Barack Obama but of a backlash in favor of manliness. Obama was a scold who offered reproof with a voice couched in the refined cadences of the parlor, and Trump speaks with the uninhibited voice of the construction site, where rough talk is the lingua franca. Gender neutrality, seeking to erase all differences between men and women, is scorned.
Obama championed an America that "wouldn't throw its weight around," and this demonstrated a hostility toward manliness. Varadarajan writes: "Mansfield says that ... the president has little propensity for abstraction or intellectual complication. 'But he's shrewd. He saw that there was a way to be appealing, and to knock off the competition of his rivals in the Republican Party, by a display of manliness and an attack on political correctness." The throwback in politics drew on old macho stereotypes that appealed to men and women who found the feminist bravado of Hillary Clinton abrasive.
The good news, as Mansfield sees it, is that the steady march of gender neutrality is slowing. The change is not always pretty. Neither are manly men -- sometimes ribald, often roughly cut and ornery. But they can usually be tamed over time. Let's hope.
Let's hope WHAT???
Wellll, as a woman, I find it works both ways. Being treated like a “cum dumpster” is hardly a rare experience for women, and before anyone says “but YOU were the one who let him do it before marriage”, I want you to ruminate on how many people you know who were virgins when they married.
Strangely enough, that’s what many feminists are after; that women be financially independent so that they won’t have to rely on marriage.
It has nothing to do with women having “power”, which can be defined to mean anything. I agree that feminists, most of whom are lesbians, are total a**holes when it comes to men. Because they’re leftists, they have a vested interest in breaking the family unit up and this is why they’re so strident. Leftists thrive on discontent and disappointment.
We live in a society that promises constant entertainment and when it’s not forthcoming, people stray. It’s an old problem and leftists made it worse by incentivising abortion on demand and easy divorce.
I well remember a former bible quoting boyfriend who repeated that verse to me as a way of saying that women deserved pain because they were evil.
I have a 35 year old niece who is a sh*t-for-brains “feminist”, always going to protests, claiming that she’s standing up for her “rights.”
She had her first abortion at age 15, and I have no doubt she’s had several more since then. She majored in “communications” a college degree a retarded ape could probably earn. She has never been able to support herself—she’s aways lived off daddy, men she’s shacked up with and/or married.
She had an affair with one of her bosses who was married, broke up his marriage, and now he supports her as her second husband. He’s almost 20 years older than her. She deludes herself that she’s self-employed as a “social media consultant,” but in reality her “business” only brings in a few thousand per year. Yeah, she’s a “feminist” and “activist”, sponging off men for her entire adult life.
Yikes!
She;s a kittle old for this book,but I’ll bet that she would love it.
Just published:
“A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance”
Emma Gray
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roflmto... shoes? You think all women want is shoes? how funny?
WHOA... Church? I found two men in Church, who turned out to be terrible.... many alcoholics trying to get free, or leftovers, who want to control everything...except for breathing! Fortunately, I did much better and found a Christian much later. :)
I don’t know about women, however, I doubt there is any less sinners looking to be free on both sides. I pray all who need a godly, and caring person finds them, wherever God sends them.
I agree with your advice, be wary, and make sure they are who you think they are!
I actually agree with you, amazing isn’t it? lol
I think you are a little mixed up and trying to mix apples and oranges. When did we start talking about the uneducated ignorant illegal alien mescal Indians having out of wedlock babies?
What has the progressive takeover of the US public school system got to do with your argument?
You yourself defined women who cook and clean house and are virtuous as not strong, sassy or smart. Now you are trying to back out of the mud with some BS about the illegal immigrants and the Dept of Education.
How do you think God designed a woman? You seem to cling to that thought. Are we talking LDS cult here or what? Because my best friend is a successful attorney who is just like me smart, strong and sassy married to a strong man and raised two outstanding conservative sons while working fulltime. We keep a clean house are virtuous and cook. And our husbands just adore us. Imagine that!
Well, I was in combat in Vietnam and I know I was glad there weren’t any women around because of the natural instinct of males to protect...I’ve often thought if their being in danger would’ve subconsciously distracted me......
You are absolutely correct.
Lowering standards for the nations defense is an insult to everyone who served.
Women do NOT belong in combat.
Yep...There are many roles in the military that a woman could fill, but combat is not one....
I, too, am from that era, and as a woman let me say we lost so many wonderful men on and off the battlefield. And many who returned were never the same, sadly. My generation lost their way due to the divide, the consequences, and the war. Thank you for your service! God bless you.
I might add that it doesn’t only insult the training, it will get us killed.
Thank you very much...I also looked at your homepage and I thank you for your service as well...
:) I was always a Reservist in a support role....glad to have helped out! Have nice evening, at least it’s evening here God bless!
The same to you...:^)
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