Only Men Can Man the Barricades, pt. 1

The ironic consequence of the sexual liberation movement is that woman got "screwed."

Note: This is an excerpt from my most recent piece at Man’s World. You can read the entire piece here.

Our 60-year social experiment with multiple “waves” of feminism has nearly destroyed our culture, country, and civilization. Beginning in the 1960s, Second Wave feminists like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the universal suffrage of First Wave feminism off the rails. The destruction begun by the Second Wave feminists accelerated with Third Wave “intersectionality” in the 1990s, and reached the peak of nonsense with digitized Fourth Wave feminism in the 21st century. Catastrophe is the result.

Feminism has destroyed women by transforming them into unbalanced neurotic girl-bosses. Simultaneously, it has emasculated men by flooding our culture with nonsense tropes about toxic masculinity and male privilege while pacifying us with video games, pornography, pharmaceuticals, and low-quality “food.”

It did all this by ignoring the fact that strong men built our civilization across more than 2,500 years, including the entirety of our physical infrastructure (roads, bridges, ports, and buildings) and all our abstract institutions (law, government, science, technology). In other words, almost every man-made thing is, literally, man-made. It was these strong men who also “manned the barricades,” so to speak. They defended what they had built against barbarian hordes, invading armies, common thieves, and stupid ideas like communism. They did so to protect a certain type of woman who was essential to raising a certain type of child; namely, those who might carry the fire of civilization.

Feminism denies or feigns ignorance of these facts, even as its proponents write angry manifestoes on laptops made by men from within homes constructed by men on fine furniture crafted by men. They then distribute those manifestoes across the planet using digital signals encoded with mathematical principles discovered by men.

Ultimately, feminism disrupted and nearly destroyed the proper relationship between men and women (and the proper refuge for children) by destroying the essential character of each. It did that by disregarding the life-sustaining and life-affirming role of women during the millennia that men built western civilization. If the only thing women had done was give birth to and raise the boys who became the men who built civilization, that would be the single greatest accomplishment in all the history of our species. And yet they did so much more: they tamed men’s voracious appetites with monogamous families conducive to effective child rearing; channeled men’s insatiable ambition into civic duty; and refined men’s unbridled power with chivalry, etiquette, and decency. The right kind of woman created the gentleman.

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