This week, the Center for Disease Control issued another statistic, showing that for the second straight year, Life Expectancy rates in the exceptional United States have dropped. This is the first time since the Kennedy Administration that there has been a consecutive yearly decline. The Junta blames these trends on the Scamdemic despite the CDC's own admission to lying about the figures. The Scamdemic also doesn't account for why the death rate among women has remained relatively stable while the numbers among men are falling radically.
While the Whacko Left Wing is probably high-fiving each other over the news of more male deaths, some elements on the Right are breaking out into their "O tempora! O mores!" routine. After doing absolutely nothing for the last few decades to resist the increasing emasculation of American culture, they've suddenly discovered that the widespread marginalization of men might actually be a significant social issue. As usual, they get it all wrong in their assessments. Rather than examining their own failures, they blame it all on women; as if male apathy and complacency had nothing to with contributing to any of it.
Dennis Prager, for example, who's been teetering delicately on a metaphorical balance-beam between Neoconservatism and Red Pill level neurosis, finally has toppled over into the abyss with his latest article 'Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country.' Prager is wailing loudly that (mostly radical feminist) women have hijacked our cultural institutions. This in spite of the fact that many Feminists seem a bit displeased with the Junta for throwing them overboard in favor of the Homo Agenda.
Prager's argument seems to center on the premise that while men have learned to curb their innate aggressiveness (though it's passing strange that he believes curbing it is a desirable goal) women haven't learned to tame their innate emotionalism. He doesn't really explain though how feminine emotionalism automatically translates into Radical Leftist Activism. (There's certainly no shortage of emotionally-driven females on the Right). He also seems to miss the obvious point that suppressing male tendencies towards aggression, competitiveness, and healthy sexuality is the basic cause of all of the things that he is complaining about.
Back when we actually had a reliable social policy, these 'innate male aggressions' that Prager complains about were sublimated into socially useful pursuits. Certain interests began seeing a problem with this, and they promoted Radical Feminism---which until the mid-1970s was nothing more than a crackpot fringe-movement. One group with an interest in 'deconstructing' masculinity was the Corporate Deep State, who realized that men supporting a family were more likely to do things like unionize---demanding a living wage, better working conditions, and opposing things like offshoring. Flooding the workplace with women drove down wages and facilitated the (totally coordinated) 'transition' to a service-based economy. Conservative men didn't oppose any of this: it was good for the bottom line and stakeholders.
"Last week an organization called Physicians for Reproductive Health published an open letter to the nation’s reporters and news editors, demanding they censor anti-abortion activists" Prager continues, “the open letter was signed by more than 600 medical doctors and other health care professionals. Nearly every signatory was a woman. And all four of the listed leaders of Physicians for Reproductive Health are women." And all nine of the Supreme Court Justices who enacted Roe vs. Wade in 1973 were men, and Planned Parenthood was founded by Bill Gates' father. Prager seems to be arguing a la Vox Day that women couldn't wait for legal abortion back then. We've always had a number of women in the medical profession, especially in nursing; but most were like Dr. Mary Jones---who pioneered American Obstetrics techniques---and who stated that "the woman who seeks the destruction of her own child deceives herself, darkens her soul, and casts down her whole moral existence.”
On the contrary, this was a time (and sadly not the only one) where the so-called 'Conservatives' went even further than the Radical Left. Frankly, I was hoping that public schools would never open again and that the supposed 'party of school choice' would seize the opportunity to push for more parental control. But, no; Prager and his ilk showed their true colors and forced Americans back into the dysfunctional system in spite of opposition from the Left. And this completes the Circular Reasoning of his whole thesis. He and his fellow Neocons have marginalized men in society and set women up to fail---now he blames women essentially for not manning up and not behaving more like men should have been doing.
Prager is utterly bonkers and controlled opposition. Look into his financial investments and shady business deals and there is a better idea of what he represents.
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Good post. One thing that really serves to further demasculate or disempower men is this idea that women are to blame for everything. Blame is like a talking stick, whoever holds it, also holds all the power.
ReplyDeleteAlso, married men tend to live longer, in part for simple reasons having to do with wives nagging them about their health and eating right. We've been to a couple of funerals lately, stubborn old guys, but they were having severe chest pains for weeks. That is less likely to happen if you have someone around who notices and is alarmed. Also, men are more vulnerable to heart problems in general and we really don't know conclusively how this vaxx impacts your heart.
The late Sir Guy at 'What Women Never Hear' told a man who said that women have all the power that his position was unmanly. The reality is that (normal) women don't want a man who they dominate. (That's different from the 'nagging' you mentioned, which is well-intentioned).
DeleteIn dating today, most men have become so weak that women will often 'flex their muscles' to see how the guy reacts. If he caves in they despise him as a weakling; if he over-reacts they read him as a bully or a dangerous Red-Pill type. In my experience, women who do that soften with a firm but playful response (what we used to call banter). They look for a man who's strong and will stand his ground but also is protective and giving. The Red Pills and the Male Feminists can't see any middle ground between cucking and bullying, and one is really just the antipode of the other.
The common cause issues that unite the neocon conservative right and the feminist progressive left are male disposability & centralized political authority.
DeleteIn the case of the neocon right, male self-sacrifice (including male willingness to accept communal debt and serve & protect others) is the fuel that drives society forward.
In the case of the feminist left, it is likewise the deliberate sacrifice of male interests that allows for the centralized authority of a predominantly feminist collective.
In both cases, the male is encouraged to 'man up' and sacrifice his own political & economic interests for the greater good of a central authority, by becoming a willing worker drone (and/or debt slave), the only difference being that each group defines the 'central authority' in terms of their own neocon oligarchic or feminist gynocratic self-interest.
For those males who still define 'conservatism' in terms of individual masculine values & headship, both of these extremes are our enemy, leaving most of us with a choice between a Neocon Scylla and a Feminist Charybdis.
Great blog- You mentioned about the status of men- Have you read Vox Days SSH> The alpha to omega men? I know you have mentioned him on your blog post- many people do subscribe to the weak men / low status men theory and how women are utterly un-attracted to such men and the attraction of women to high status men. I do remember Dalrocks blog- I did not know you had followed that blog in the past- Peace
ReplyDeleteI have listened to Dennis Prager a little bit. I have not picked up on the notion that he is somehow anti-woman. I could be wrong, but I don't think Prager is some sort of sexist. This quote is relevant.
ReplyDelete"I also came to realize that raising good men was the most important thing society could do. If it doesn’t, the male propensity to physical aggression and predatory sexual behavior will wreak havoc. Therefore, raising boys to control their natures is fundamental to society avoiding chaos.
Over the course of a lifetime, however, I have come to realize that while society was right about males, it was wrong about females. Whether spoken or unspoken, most people thought that girls just didn’t need to be raised to control their natures nearly as much as boys did.
But they do." (from https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/08/30/dennis-prager-women-are-disproportionately-hurting-our-country-1278982/)
I have been sort of puzzled by the tendency of Conservatives to attack their allies, which I think Prager is for the most part. However, I have decided that what happens is that Conservatives make the mistake of accepting portions of Liberal Democrat smears.
Sadly, we can all be tricked into believing the worse about people. That is because it takes a lot of work to investigate all the lies we are being fed. When source don't prove trustworthy, we have to stop taking them seriously.
The primary solution to the problem of weak men and women is to get government out of the education business. What do we have to do at this point?
1. We have to keep Democrats from appointing any more Supreme Court judges.
2. We have to fight state-by-state for school choice.
Is Prager an ally in these fights? I think so.