Scott McKay at America Spectator has a piece (teasingly labeled part 1) about the modern battle between the sexes and the race to the bottom.
I’m calling the entries that follow the Five Black Pills, but they’re really more like separate buckets of discontent with the pills floating at the top. The items I’m highlighting in each of the columns to follow in this space are stand-ins and microcosms for larger issues that I’ll reference, which probably deserve larger treatment. And while those buckets can be said to be distinct, there are definite relationships between them.
Part one is Feminism or “Feminism, and Its Corrosive Effect on Both Men and Women.”
Feminism ruined women, then men, and the culture has suffered along the way. You can just look at the average stereotypical lib chick, and the picture paints at least a thousand words. I’m reminded of a laugh line from Mad About You. “I see five problems just looking at you.”
One of the problems is the Murphy Brown thing. Fatherless moms. The intelligentsia on the left, aided by incredibly wealthy actresses, have helped create a culture where women who do not have the means are convinced to be baby mommas and that this is empowering. Don’t need no man.
These are supposed to be smart women who said, ” We just want men for sex, so we can have a baby, and that’s it.” Billy Crystal rightly remarked that women need a reason to have sex. Men will have sex for no reason, so if you give them even less responsibility than that, they’re in.
The elites created the culture that destroyed families (on purpose, IMO), and Black families went first (Latina and white families have since followed in lesser degrees). And that false-empowerment culture is still alive. ALIVE!
[O]n Thursday I saw one of those not-really-viral Facebook posts which seem ubiquitous on my feed now — somebody posts rage-bait and then boosts it, and naturally I get it inflicted on me — which told a feminist-fantasy story about all of the adult men in the world disappearing at once, and how the women were able to take over and how they decided on a better way to raise the boys who were left so they’d be better men than the ones who vanished.
“My immediate thought was that the worst men in society tend to be the ones who didn’t have fathers…”
Scott also points to the single best example of what the world looks like without fathers.
In the ghetto, there aren’t many fathers around, and there are very few good men. There are lots of criminals; there are layabout men who sit on stoops in the middle of workdays; there are men who sponge off the women of the ghetto. There are some men who work jobs, but few of them are good enough at those jobs to move up and make a real living. And the women are seldom, if ever, married when they bear children. They’re married to the government; that’s where the sustenance of the ghetto comes from.
And it’s not a race problem. Appalachia has its share of white ghetto culture. It’s increasingly a feminist problem. Black men who do well enough to escape the ghetto take their families to the suburbs. The suburbs are painted by the feminists as the “patriarchy” prison.
Record levels of single men, and record levels of mental illness and left-wing politics among single women, will turn more and more of America into the ghetto. There will still be sex, but it leads to fewer and fewer babies being born, and as it’s women who determine who and when there is sex, you will have the matriarchy.
And it will be the ghetto.
It’s actually the systemic evolution of socialism within the culture. They made women dependent on the state, then advertised it as human flourishing (Life of Julia). Complete and utter dependence on the government for everything in your life. Cradle-to-grave healthcare, welfare, but then, what’s that?
Dependency on an authority figure who has the power to deny you the benefits promised at any time, for any reason. Uncle Sam is your sugar daddy. To keep the gimmes, you have to be obedient. No bitching about the declining lifestyle or the rising cost of living this way. You may have to allow them to violate your body with experimental drugs or put masks on your kids – well, they aren’t really your kids, are they?
They and you belong to the State. If you want your mental health drugs (for you or the kids), you’ll have to be a proper citizen, as defined by them. Everything is defined by them. In a world where poverty and subsistence living are the best everyone you know can do.
What started as the goal of being operationally and culturally equal to men got hijacked. Men became less than equals. The enemy. And now men are falling into the dependency trap.
And the best part? The ruling-class elites who put you there will make sure to blame rich people, which is ironic, because the longer this goes on, the more likely it is that the only rich people left are the ones who led you into this trap.
The way out is stronger men. The way out is to insist that feminists stand down in the face of a culturally-enforced patriarchy (or “patriarchy,” because what feminists call a patriarchy is really just a functional, traditional American culture in which women still have a great deal of power and influence).
Can we get there from here?
