Posted on 05/07/2021 4:36:53 AM PDT by lightman
Speaking in a very general sense, I think women tend to value safety and security over freedom and opportunity. Certainly not all women, but many, and it shows when they are put in positions of leadership.
How then do you explain conservative women and liberal men?
Seems to me many male conservatives fall into the trap of simultaneously tearing down and mocking femininity, then wondering why women aren’t more feminine these days. Humans of both sexes follow social and financial incentives, and right now all the incentives are stacked against being a feminine woman.
C.S. Lewis said it best, “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
“if women were in charge”
Are women in charge though? Men still make up the majority of political and business leaders. Seems to me if we really lived in a matriarchy that wouldn’t be the case. What power do I have over any given man? Not physical power to intimidate, that’s for sure. Power to make false accusations against him? Sure, but no decent woman would do that, and that happened even before feminism took off. My husband would get the house and likely alimony if we divorced. So what power do I have that a man does not?
“The tantrum known as modern feminism resulted from the tantrum thrown by men...”
I don’t believe that. The womens lib bs is simply one of many attempts (methodfs) to divide us by pitting one group against another. Men against women, blacks against whites poor against rich, gays against straights and on and on.
The establishment of the West has decided to re-implement feudalism to re-enslave Europeans. Under medieval feudalism Europeans were reduced to the status of livestock but men were still valued for their physical strength and ability to fight and so they endured. In the modern machine age men are less intrinsically valuable and, because herd animals only need a few bulls to service hundreds, the new class of nobles are happily turning modern men into steers, queers, and bottom boys.
We have a free will and that makes people responsible for their decisions. It is both weak and naive to blame “the Devil” for things brought about by your own decisions.
“The rise of feminism is in direct proportion to the decline in the proper practice of masculinity by men.”
When I saw the article I said to myself “I already know the answer”. My answer is (a) masculine strength is less needed (power steering, pushing buttons, machines to do many manually-done jobs), and the pill which allows women to be less responsible and more agressive.
Your explanation fits with mine.
Also the value of a stable husband+wife+children family is giving way to men and women having careers, making money, not sticking with a mate they don’t like, letting others raise their kids.
Male children used to be of value to parents when they became men. Female children used to be valuable because they were the ones that eventually produced more children.
The nuclear family is now husband+wife+children+internet+cellphones.
I'm just fixing this because I can sense eyelids twitching out there.
Perhaps my last post wasn’t clear. I thought it was apparent from the totality of my posts on the subject that it is the devil who introduces the temptation, and it is men and women who make the selection.
Blaming the devil/making excuses is for people like Flip Wilson.
Internet and cellphone...I love it (or maybe, I hate it...)
“I’m just fixing this because I can sense eyelids twitching out there.”
Thanks, my english word use software has failed me.
The rise of feminism is in direct proportion to the decline in the proper practice of masculinity by men.
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BINGO! Which, by the way, is precisely why there is a confirmed and obvious symbiotic relationship between women and the “feminized” segment of the male population.
My bet is if we ever figure out who the people really running this country are, we will find that there are damn few women, if any, among them.
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I suspect it’s the subtleness (what Kant called the noumenon) of this particular fact that makes it difficult for people to perceive it.
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