Women are powerful, men gutless

Edmonton Sun ^ | March 23, 2003 | Ted Byfield

[jordan8]

By TED BYFIELD -- Edmonton Sun

The United States went to war last week without France as an ally, something it has practically never done in its entire history. From its 18th century Revolutionary War onward through the War of 1812, two world wars, Korea and the Gulf War, France has always been an American ally. But not this time. So what has changed?

Not the United States so much as France, I think. True, France has heavy investments in Iraqi oil, but one suspects the explanation runs deeper than this, that there has been a fundamental change in France itself.

It's noteworthy that just such a transformation was described this month in the feminist magazine Elle, which marked International Women's Day with a study of modern France's manhood. It portrays a hapless male population that couldn't go to war with anybody.

"French masculinity is in crisis," says Elle. "There is no longer a model for building a masculine identity; man no longer exists." It describes what it calls three "generations" of men:

• "Wise married men." They are 45 to 55, guilty about male domination, afraid of being rejected as replaceable "throw-aways." They characteristically capitulate to women as the dominant half of the couple.
  
  
• Bitter, complaining divorced men, 35 to 45, who spend time in the kitchen while women shop in designer stores. They search for women of another culture willing to submit to male domination.
  
  
• Co-operative married men, 25 to 35, whom it calls the "new eunuchs," who set virility aside for a conflict-free life in a matriarchal family.
  
  "Men of all generations are suffering," says Elle. Having been offered since the '60s a series of unattractive role models - Golden Boy, House Husband, Gay and Rambo - they "feel diminished, devalued, in a society where things feminine are perceived as positive and all-powerful values."
  
  I find this altogether believable. It's the deserved and predictable fate of the males of the '60s generation. I notice also that they don't have a description of my own male generation- i.e., of us 70-year-olds and up - we who continue to boss, dominate, oppress and otherwise abuse our downtrodden 70-and-up women.
  
  Elle has omitted the other half of the story. France has another problem. As in every western European country, the birthrate of its caucasian population, meaning the part that was once Christian, has dropped to such a dismal level that by 2025 France will be a very different country.
  
  The immigrants pouring in from North Africa and the Middle East, who still have children in large numbers and who do not subscribe to Elle or anything it stands for, and who show no inclination whatever of ever doing so, will form a majority of the nation. In other words, Elle is not describing French manhood. It is describing only part of it. The other part, the rapidly expanding immigrant part, doesn't fit any of these categories.
  
  It's ironic that in the same week this description of French manhood came out, the government of Quebec announced new measures to bolster the province's birth rate, which is now the lowest in Canada.
  
  Quebecers who have a child within five years of finishing college are being offered a 50% refund on student loans. Young couples are also offered an interest-free $5,000 government loan for the purchase of their first home.
  
  It won't work, however, not if the experience of western European countries means anything. Every European effort to bribe women into having children has failed. An editorial in The Montreal Gazette last week blames the dismal birth rate on economics. Quebec couples won't have kids because the Quebec economy is too unstable, they fear. However, Europe has the same birthrate problem and its economy has never been better.
  
  Obviously the real explanation is the one implicit in the Elle article. The New Woman is powerful because the New Woman is childless and the New Man is gutless.
  
  It's hard to see a great future for such a society.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Europe's economy has never been better? Well that ain't saying much.

[God luvs America]

that's pretty pathetic if you are french....I can hear the hairy-arm pitted french women now, "oh where are those manly german men on their tanks now, I can't stand these effeminate french fag boys any more!!!"

[SAJ]

...Europe has the same birthrate problem and its economy has never been better.

WTH is this clown smokin'? 11.3% unemployment in Germany and France having to shorten the workweek to 'create' jobs.

If this, to paraphrase the old joke, is a 'super economy', I'll take the soup, thanks.

[B4Ranch]

• "Wise married men." They are 45 to 55, guilty about male domination, afraid of being rejected as replaceable "throw-aways." They characteristically capitulate to women as the dominant half of the couple.
  
  
• Bitter, complaining divorced men, 35 to 45, who spend time in the kitchen while women shop in designer stores. They search for women of another culture willing to submit to male domination.
  
  
• Co-operative married men, 25 to 35, whom it calls the "new eunuchs," who set virility aside for a conflict-free life in a matriarchal family.
  

In order to make a marriage last, neither the man nor woman should constantly capitulate to the other. Joint decisions are what make marriage fun and worthwhile. The woman must enjoy the marriage as much as the man in order to keep it working properly.

[annyokie]

Edmonton is Canadian, my friends.

[enviros_kill]

Read "Death of the West" (2002) by Pat Buchanan and it will paint an even bleaker story about the declining birth rate, de-Christianization, feminization abetted by abortion on demand and a liberal judiciary which started it all by taking God out of American culture/schools.

The long march thru the institutions by the Left has succeeded and we are now in the painful position of trying to win back lost ground. Eight years of coke nose was the capstone.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?

Twain

[gcruse]

And that's why the French want to run Europe through the EU? Sorry, the original premise of the story wandered off the path later in the article and got run over by a lorry.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Read all the way to the bottom of the article and you will see I quoted the article. I know where Edmonton is but the article also talks a lot about France. So there!

[Nick Danger]

For many years, feminist scholars were on a quest to find the great matriarchies of history. They assume there had to have been some, but they could never find any. Not a trace, anywhere. In desperation they began to posit great matriarchal cultures in Atlantis and so on.

It is kind of hard to believe that in the infinite variety of the world, there had never been even one matriarchal culture of size. In fact a better explanation is that such societies did arise, but something about them caused them to vanish without leaving a trace.

I think we are learning what that is.

[steve-b]

However, Europe has the same birthrate problem and its economy has never been better.

Oh, puh-leeze. This is like pointing to a day when Clinton had laryngitis and noting that he has never been more honest.

[annyokie]

"So there!"

Well, do you want to chase me around the playground now?

[D-fendr]

Women's Ass Size Study

There is a new study out about women and how they feel about their ass.

I thought the results were pretty interesting:

85% of women think their ass is too big...

10% of women think their ass is too little...

The other 5% say that they don't care - they love him and would have married him anyway!

[ccmay]

Having been offered since the '60s a series of unattractive role models - Golden Boy, House Husband, Gay and Rambo

So what's the matter with Rambo? Damned French nancy-boys could learn a thing or two from him. I thought that was the whole point of the article.

-ccm

[Illbay]

That's true for societies that haven't lost their soul.

Europe is "post-Christian." A horde of Vikings could take over the whole place now.

[Illbay]

I don't see how "feminism abetted by abortion on demand" follows at all.

DECLINING BIRTH RATE abetted by abortion on demand, I can buy.

But the problem with feminism is that it is abetted by EMASCULATION.

[photogirl]

ROTFLM(cute)AO!

[nopardons]

Pat's long on talk and not all that accurate with his facts.

As usual, this is just a Pat rant and a do as I say , not as I do. Pat has NO, zero, nada, zip, bupkis children. His sister has two. I don't know the child count, for his brothers; however, I doubt it's high.

The American birth rate is slightly more than replacement; many European country's is below below replacement. South American countries' birth count, is only slightly above replacement.

[gg188]

Europe is "post-Christian." A horde of Vikings could take over the whole place now.

Or a horde of Moors.