Sunday, August 05, 2018
For a long time, the liberal types
supported the Jews because of their history of persecution. Now many
of these same people hate the Jews because of the behavior of the
Israelis. The oppressed became oppressors themselves, and they lost
the sympathy of the people who are against oppression.
We are seeing similar things with the
feminist movement. For a long time the liberal types supported the
women's cause because here was a group that behaved well, being
oppressed by a group that behaved badly. But when women themselves
behave in hideous ways, that loses their support. So now there is a
strong movement against feminism and in some cases against women as
such. And the feminists, having through their vicious behavior
alienated the very kind of people who were most likely to support
them, are faced with a very strong backlash that they may or may not
be able to withstand.
If women choose to be harpies, then
people who want the world to be a better place will not support them.
A person driven by fairness or kindness or wanting the world to be a
better place will be most likely to see them the same way in which
many liberals see the Israelis. They are a formerly oppressed
population that has in many cases met and exceeded the patriarchy in
viciousness; and there is no reason at all to fight alongside them.
When Stalin is fighting Hitler, the solution is not to side with
either one.
So we have feminists claiming that not
liking a woman – any woman – means being misogynistic. Meanwhile
they are themselves hateful to many men and many women. And we have
women claiming that men are “assholes who deserve to die” when
they like them better thin than fat, even as they attack men who are
in a bad mental shape and crack on to men in good one. We have people
claiming physical beauty to be incompatible with strength or
intelligence or spirituality and other good traits, and claiming
their nastiness and their hatefulness to be strength, intelligence
and spirituality. And we have women in female-run organizations
attacking in their employees beauty, intelligence and willingness to
work hard, then complaining about the glass ceiling. Sorry. If you
are attacking winning qualities in your people, you will only lose.
This having been stated, as much as
possible should be done to fight domestic violence. This is not
something that only affects the guilty; it also is a hideous problem
for many people who are innocent. Most women living in such
situations are not harpies. Many of them are good enough human
beings. And it is rightful that they get all the support that they
can get.
So what is the rightful solution to all
this? It is the rational solution. It is to see everything capable of
choice as being capable of both good choice and bad choice. Pursuant
that consideration, it is to support and reward good behavior and
punish bad behavior. This is the case both with women and with men.
Right now we see the opposite
happening. On one side of town, violent and truly misogynistic men
brutally abuse women who for the most part are better people than
they are. On the other side of town, hideous harpies viciously attack
the men who are the least likely to be misogynistic – men near
liberal centers of culture and education. In both cases the bad guys
win and the good guys lose. And this teaches everyone that it pays to
be a jerk and that being good will get you mistreated. At the
societal level, it creates an incentive toward wrongful conduct,
resulting in there being more of it.
Coming from that, I advocate what I
call the economic solution. Support a large cross-cultural flux for
intermarriage. Let women from first side of town get together with
men from second side of town. Let women who are willing to be good to
men and men who are willing to be good to women get with one another
and form good relationships. And exercise an incentive upon the
offending gender in each situation to improve their treatment of the
other gender – or else see the other gender leave in large numbers
to be with people who are willing to be good to them.
I was in support of women's rights ever
since I was three. But I have been slandered as a misogynist or
worse. To these people: I refuse to be your punching bag. You want to
fight misogynists, fight real ones. And believe me there are plenty
of them, and they do not like me one bit.
So if the feminists choose to be
vicious, they will lose the support of people coming from the
consideration of fairness or kindness or what makes the world a
better place. And then they will have to fight real misogyny by
themselves, without many others supporting them. Let them fight their
own battles if they think that they are strong, smart and independent
and that nobody else is. They don't need some supposed misogynist
supporting them if that is their attitude.
Right now there are many women who are
choosing social conservatism willingly, and the people who claim
unelected leadership over women are losing influence. This will
continue to happen until they start thinking straight and realize
what it requires for them to get the support that they need. I do not
deserve as a man to be treated as if I was Ted Bundy. And my former
wife did not deserve the abuse that she got while working for a
woman-run organization.
For feminism to regain the support that
it needs, it will have to change its character. It will have to move
away from viciousness and misandry and become a movement that seeks
women's betterment without seeking men's ill. It will have to stop
abusing compassion and goodwill to force an equivalent of
totalitarianism. And it will have to behave rightfully both toward
women and toward men while supporting rightful behavior on the part
of both.
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