Women to Rule Men by 2010
Just when you thought that legislative, judicial, law-enforcement, media, and reproductive biases in favor of women were the epitome of double standards, there is new evidence that “life control” is increasingly shifting to the female domain: in four years, women also will rule men financially. Remember this the next time the waiter brings the check to your table, and your woman insists that YOU pay it — or worse, you acquiesce.
By 2010, women will own all the power points of society. According to a new study by Allianz, a mammoth-sized financial-services firm, women in that year will control 60% of US wealth (Allianz news release displayed below). Here are the other critical Allianz findings:
- Today there are one-third more women graduating from college than men.
- Women’s median income has increased 60%+ over the past thirty years, while men’s median income has hardly increased at all.
- The number of women earning $100,000+ has quadrupled in last decade.
- Sixty percent of women with business degrees outearn their husbands.
- Women account for half of all stock-market investors.
What’s laughable is that, despite the professional and financial gains women have made and continue to make, Allianz indicates that they’re still unhappy! If you’re surprised, read my article, “If Women Were Happy,” to understand why.
Where’s this wealth coming from? Here are five common sources of female wealth:
- Wages, business earnings, and investments
- Family inheritance
- Becoming widowed at a young age
- Lucrative divorce settlements, alimony, and child support
- Being wined, dined, vacationed, and bejeweled during the dating process.
This Allianz announcement should be a big wakeup call to men. As I have been exhorting for some time, you must rethink the way you relate to women: View them as peers and refuse to tolerate their attitudes of entitlement and demands for special privileges and deferential treatment.
Little by little, women have been eating your lunch, literally and figuratively. And, it’s YOUR fault. Why? Because you have equated your money with your masculinity. You have believed that women are the weaker sex, that your mission in life is to take care of them. Well, the numbers tell a different story. Now that the power clock is running out, it’s time to equate chivalry with impotence — not power. Any man who continues to play ostrich by ignoring this admonition does so at his own peril.
Women are graduating from college in higher numbers than you. At a rising rate, they will outearn you. They make most of the household-spending decisions. They match you in stock ownership. And, four years from now, they will control most of the money in this country (to learn more about women in the US workplace, read from the US Department of Labor: Women’s Bureau). How much longer will you wait to act?
To err through commission is one thing, but failing to act is the biggest sin of all. Look at the situation in Iran. How many times over the past few years has sabre-rattling Iran promised to negotiate about curtailing its nuclear capability and then announce that it won’t negotiate? Too many to count. All the while, naive, head-in-the-sand Uncle Sam hoped for the best. Hope is not a strategy. Proof: Today, Iran test-fired a new submarine-to-surface missile during war games in the Persian Gulf. It won’t be long before such missiles are nuclear, when it will be too late for Uncle Sam to act. Then, the power of the world will unalterably shift. See any parallels?
How will our society look in 2010? I envision acrimony between men and women to skyrocket, resulting in an even-larger number of men refusing to get married and the out-of-wedlock birthrate to continue climbing unabated (already 35% for whites and 70% for blacks). The solution is so simple — men and women treat each other as peers — yet so few are interested in solving anything. They’d rather destroy each other in family courts. During all the battling, unfortunately, men are losing their power and influence.
Since 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet. Last week, it was demoted to dwarf status. Do you still think that wining & dining women makes you Master of the Universe? Think again, pal.
[EXTRA: Forbes List of World's 100 Most Powerful Women: 2006]
About the Author
Marc H. Rudov is an investment banker and business consultant residing in Silicon Valley, CA. He is the author of the book, The Man’s No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet EarthTM (ISBN 0974501719), and 24 articles.
Rudov’s book, articles, blog, and podcasts are available at http://www.TheNoNonsenseMan.com/.
Copyright ©2006 by Marc H. Rudov. All rights reserved.
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Despite Unprecedented Wealth and Power,
Most Women Feel Financially Insecure, Allianz Study Finds
Lack of financial knowledge leads to fears of losing all their money
NEW YORK, NY. – (August 22, 2006) – After decades of escalating education, income and participation in the workplace, women are expected to control 60% of the wealth in the United States by 2010—an unprecedented milestone in the empowerment of women. Yet despite this economic gain, women feel financially insecure and unprepared to handle their growing wealth, with nearly half worrying about becoming a bag lady, according to the new Allianz Women, Money, and Power Study.
The study results also serve as a wake-up call for the financial services industry, which has a long way to go to meet the needs of female financial decision makers. The study found:
- Regardless of the fact that women are more educated, more involved in financial decisions and are controlling more of the wealth than ever before the vast majority (90%) feel somewhat or not at all financially secure.
- Despite this level of insecurity, women say financial security and freedom are 15 to 20 times more important to them than money-related status or respect.
- Along with this financial insecurity is this tremendous fear of losing all their money and becoming a bag lady – about half of women had the “bag lady†fear, and surprisingly, almost half of the wealthier women (those who earned more than $100,000 annually) also felt this way.
- Lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to women getting more involved in managing household finances – four times as much a barrier as lack of time.
“The financial services industry has largely handled the financial needs of women the same way they handle men’s needs,†said Mark Zesbaugh, CEO of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. “Given women’s evolving role in the economy and society, and now the insight we’ve gleaned from this research, the time is right for the financial services industry to adapt their approach to women.â€
“In the last century, women revolutionized their roles in politics, family, and the workforce. This century, we are witnessing women breaking through the final barrier to gender equality – financial empowerment,†said Dr. Ken Dychtwald, America’s leading gerontologist, author of twelve books on aging-related issues including Age Wave, Age Power, The Power Years, and Workforce Crisis, and president of Age Wave. “This study enables us to develop a clear vision of women’s evolving financial roles and their distinct aspirations, challenges, and needs.â€
“This study will guide financial advisers as they help female clients find effective financial strategies,†said Lisa Resnick, president of life and long term care insurance for Allianz. “Despite the insecurities women feel about their financial futures, women who already work with a financial advisor told us they feel more financially secure, confident and optimistic.â€
Women’s roles in society, the economy, and at home have evolved to where an increasing amount of decision-making and control falls to women. Unlike women in previous generations, today’s woman finds herself in an unprecedented societal and economic shift:
- The percentage of women in the workforce almost doubled in the second half of the last century, from 32% to 62%.
- Today there are one-third more women graduating from college than men.
- Women’s median income has increased 60%+ over the past thirty years, while men’s median income has hardly increased at all.
- The number of women earning $100,000+ has quadrupled in last decade.
- Sixty percent of women with business degrees outearn their husbands.
- Women account for half of all stock-market investors.
- It is expected that by 2010, women will control 60% of wealth in the United States.
Allianz engaged Age Wave to design The Allianz Women, Money, and Power Study to provide insight into women’s relationships with money and investing, particularly at a time when women are at an all-time high in terms of their college graduation rates, numbers in the work force and earning power. The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive® and asked 3,183 people – 1,925 women and 1,258 men – to identify their attitudes and behaviors towards money.
The Allianz Women, Money, and Power Study identified four key themes that illustrate women’s relationships with money and investing, and the gaps the financial services industry needs to fill in helping women meet their goals.
1) Financial Insecurity, Avoid Becoming a Bag Lady. The study found that financial insecurity defines women and their relationship with money:
- Regardless of the fact that women are more educated, more involved in financial decisions and are controlling more of the wealth than ever before the vast majority (90%) feeling somewhat or not at all financially secure.
- Nearly two-thirds of women said the best thing about having money is feeling secure and not the things money can buy.
- This insecurity may explain why women are twice as likely as men to have a secret stash in case of a financial emergency.
- Women who work with a financial advisor feel more responsible, confident and optimistic and more likely to have financial clarity, security, and satisfaction.
2) Personality Matters. The Allianz Women, Money, and Power Study identified five distinct personas from commonly recognized fictional characters that reflect women’s attitudes towards money and investing. The smallest percentage said they wanted a man to take care of them, while the largest percentage – over a third – consider themselves to be savvy and self-reliant investors.
- “Cinderellas†– 8% of women hope that Prince Charming will make everything okay and feel they lack sufficient knowledge to make smart financial decisions.
- “Alices in Wonderlands†– 17% of women are confused by all the financial choices and avoid financial responsibility.
- “Wonder Women†–18% of women feel capable of handling whatever comes their way, feel confident, empowered, extremely knowledgeable about money and investing, and most likely to work with a financial advisor.
- “Belles†– 23% like to handle things equally with their partners, are communicative and happy with their marriages where household finances are concerned.
- “Goldilockes†– 35% of women thoroughly research their options before making financial decisions, they are confident, analytical and highly knowledgeable about household finances.
3) He Said / She Said. When it comes to finances, women and men have dramatically different approaches and perceptions of the other sex:
- Women view themselves as carrying more responsibilities and are therefore burdened with more worries; men see themselves as more analytical and more open to taking risks.
- The lack of savings and too much debt are the major sources of financial conflicts between men and women.
- Women are more likely to attribute arguments about money to issues of power and control, while men are more likely to attribute it to trust.
- While almost all husbands and wives say the ideal way for a married couple to meet with a financial advisor is for both of them to meet together, nearly half say they act alone.
- According to wives, husbands overestimate their leadership role when it comes to savings and investments – by a factor of three to one.
- Overwhelmingly, men find financially independent women sexy, while only 4% of men disagreed.
4) What Women Want … Financially. The study provides advice for financial planners to help them better understand women’s financial goals:
- For women, lack of knowledge is women’s biggest barrier to getting more involved with managing savings and investments – four times as much a barrier as lack of time.
- Women have a unique financial profile: they want less worry, less aggressive investing, more security and predictability, more simplicity and easier access to understandable financial information.
- Women are more than twice as likely as men to choose to work with a female financial advisor; however, 80% of financial advisors are men.
- Mature women – who seem to be much more empowered and in control of their lives than younger generations – have some sage advice to offer Boomer and Gen X/Y women: plan early, learn about finances/investing and strive for financial independence. The adage of “marrying well†no longer works – “marry someone who is financially stable†was at the bottom of the list by a factor of 10 to 1.
The Allianz Women, Money, and Power Study demonstrates that the financial services industry can better position itself to work with women through key changes such as:
- Understanding that women are taking more control of their and their families’ finances.
- Acknowledging that we as a society are not educating our children about money.
- Playing a more active role in making sure financial education is more widely available in schools.
- Having more of a presence in women’s publications to promote financial literacy to women – in both the editorial and advertising pages.
- Recruiting more female financial advisors.
- Recognizing that women from older generations are ready to give advice to Generations X and Y.
- Realizing that it’s not just about women vs. men, but about the differences in women and segmenting according to age, personality traits, attitudes, and behaviors.
- Focusing on empowerment, rather than power.
1Trendsight Group
2 Bureau of Labor Statistics
3 Department of Education
4 Marketing to Women, by Marti Barletta
5 U.S. Census, Annual Demographic Survey
6 Marketing to Women, by Marti Barletta
7 Private Banker International, 2003
8 Trendsight Group
Study Methodology
Harris Interactive® fielded a nationwide online survey for Allianz and Age Wave among 3,183 U.S. adults – 1,258 were men and 1,925 were women. The margin of error for the total sample was approximately +/- 2%. (See the full methodology document in the press kit.)
The online survey was conducted in the United States between May 4, 2006 and July 5, 2006. Figures for age by sex, education, race/ethnicity, region, income and net worth were weighted where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents’ propensity to be online.
About Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America
Founded in 1896 and based in Minneapolis, Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America provides fixed and variable annuities, life insurance policies, and long term care insurance products in the United States. Known for innovation, performance and customer service, the company has become a leader in the North American life insurance industry. Allianz products are offered through a network of over 220,000 independent financial professionals. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America is one of the primary companies of Allianz AG, the 16th largest corporation in the world based on revenue (Fortune, August 2006). Allianz AG employs over 177,000 people worldwide.
About Age Wave
Age Wave was created in 1986 to guide leading companies and government groups worldwide in product and service development – geared to aging boomer and mature population segments. The company’s far reaching explorations and innovative solutions have fertilized and catalyzed a broad spectrum of industry sectors from vitamins and cookies to automotive design and retail merchandising to mutual funds and health insurance. Age Wave’s services include groundbreaking primary and secondary research, cutting-edge brainstorming, business development guidance and a wide range of highly acclaimed presentations, communications and education programs. (http://www.agewave.com/)
About Harris Interactive®
Harris Interactive is the 12th largest and fastest-growing market research firm in the world. The company provides research-driven insights and strategic advice to help its clients make more confident decisions which lead to measurable and enduring improvements in performance. Harris Interactive is widely known for The Harris Poll, one of the longest running, independent opinion polls and for pioneering online market research methods. More information about Harris Interactive may be obtained at http://www.harrisinteractive.com/.
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Stumble It!
August 27th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Men must organize politically and demand equality in marriage and family. When you get down to it, it does not matter who earns more or who stays home (albeit, we know who will do what in most marriages). What matters is that women have had complete control of family, as evidenced by “who files for divorce” and subsequent outcomes; and as evidenced by the fact that when a child is born out of wedlock, the father has absolutely no rights whatsoever.
The idea that a child is chattal property of the woman is sheer dictatorial nonsense that must be ended completely. Children belong to both parent’s, share their parent’s DNA equally, and are therefore the “property” of both parents. Government has no right to diminish this right, or overlook it in any way, unless a parent is provably unfit.
When this is changed, the other rights of men will naturally equalize over time. And, if we do not demand this change, with overwhelming consensus and political advocacy, our rights will continue to be diminished unabated.
August 27th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
I think a BIG discussion has to occur on a national level-AMONG MEN.
“In the last century, women revolutionized their roles in politics, family, and the workforce. This century, we are witnessing women breaking through the final barrier to gender equality – financial empowerment,†said Dr. Ken Dychtwald, America’s leading gerontologist, author of twelve books on aging-related issues including Age Wave, Age Power, The Power Years, and Workforce Crisis, and president of Age Wave.
The “final barrier to gender equality”?? says Ken Dychtwald.
How about: the final barrier to gender (female) dominance?
Why is it, that empowering women over men
(as has been done in virtually every other area of life including the family) is seen as
“equality” for women? Both men and women have worked for 40+ years to rig all the rules of hiring, promoting, family law, and on and on, to advantage women at the expense of men. If the playing field was fair the world would look different today. The strategy has always been the same. Give all the power and advantages to the women while at the same time the women continue to complain thereby assuring that any particular “problem” never has enough solutions (e.g., freebies, advantages, rights etc.). And the solutions keep on coming.
When the hell will men wake up? After it is too late?
Time will tell. And it won’t be a long wait.
August 27th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
(From the article): “Where’s this wealth coming from? Here are five common sources of female wealth:
* Wages, business earnings, and investments
* Family inheritance
* Becoming widowed at a young age
* Lucrative divorce settlements, alimony, and child support
* Being wined, dined, vacationed, and bejeweled during the dating process”
Interesting that four of these five generators of female wealth all derive from men’s wealth being appropriated.
There is a scientific word defining organisms that feed off of and benefit by doing no work while appropriating the lifeblood of other organisms —
PARASITES.
That is the word.
The only word that fully describes the female species in its contemporary guise.
Gents, it is in fact a ZERO-SUM GAME.
YOU are the HOST of the GAME!
Get used to it, because you’re losing.
August 27th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
To all the guys out there I am asking for some direction or input.
What could men do to bring these issues to the common public. Feminists control the media and politics. And the few things that do slip through are derided by calling them sexists, bigoted, ect.
So what way should men bring out thier issues to overcome this.
Are there any real good discussion forums on men’s issues? If so could you point me to them?
August 27th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Get ALL of your male friends and colleagues to send e-mails and faxes to their state and federal legislators, to their governors, and to President Bush. Tell them that you are SICK of the anti-male laws and pro-female privileges.
At this point, a public forum for men that does not result in a MASSIVE letter-writing campaign is a waste. Remember, 100% of the US Senate voted to reauthorize VAWA 2006 — an unconstitutional law — which is a slam against men.
Why is VAWA a runaway train? Women have been raised to be professional whiners & complainers, and they have defeated men with their voices. Men have sat on the sidelines, watching themselves lose.
Elected officials want only one thing in life: to get reelected. They listen to whiners & complainers. They love votes, not voters.
August 27th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
So Marc,
Are you propsing that men should “out-whine” the feminazis as a way to get clout in Congress?
For starters, men don’t like to whine.
It makes them feel like girls.
What other strategic advice do you have to offer?
August 27th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
I think you should reread what I wrote above. The answer is there.
August 27th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
So Marc you are proposing that a MASSIVE letter writing campaign will do the trick? (Of course e-mails, faxes, pigeons landing on the White House?)
Are you serious?
August 27th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
A massive letter-writing, e-mail, and fax campaign stopped the ridiculous immigration bill in its tracks. It DOES work.
August 27th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
First step is to stop allowing any woman – who knows exactly jack and shit about being a man – to define your masculinity for you.
Last time I had some woman start with “A real man would…” I stopped her dead in her tracks and said, “Excuse me – do you scratch your nuts in the morning? Pee standing up? Get prostate exams? No? That who the fuck are you to tell me what men do?”
If even half the men in this country would say that tomorrow to some flannel-mouth femherroid tomorrow, we’d cut the BS by 75% in one fell swoop.
August 27th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
The other part is to stop caring if women cry. Let them. In fact, I approach every conversation with a feminist with the goal of upsetting them in one way or another.
You won’t persuade the dumbkopfs anyway, you might as well have some fun.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:08 am
The other half is to confront men like Ken Dychtwald. I don’t know if this guy is a metrosexual, a true feminist believer, or a guy who has been so politically corrected that he has stopped thinking and simply reacts like Pavlov’s Dog. But it is important to get “in their shit” too. Men have got to fucking wake up. The first discussion and perhaps battle has to occur among men. Then it’s time to really go after the feminists. Feminists derive the power they have largely because we men are unorganized (and with men like Dychtwald-divided) . Because of this they have immense influence on the power points in society. Take that big advantage away and we will finish off the feminists rather quickly. We can start rolling things back to real equality and fairness. THAT will be a fun day.
I like the massive letter writing campaign.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:50 am
A good model for the “massive letter writing campaign” would be the numbersusa.com anti illegal immigration web site. They have send hundreds of thousands of faxes to elected officials.
August 28th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
All,
With all due respect to Marc, I believe that emails and faxes won’t do it. Men have taken this laying down for 40 years, and faxing and emailing their eyeballs out.
According to my insider sources, Republicans don’t think there is a demographic to even be measured in terms of the “men’s rights”, or the “legitimate marriage movement”. This is why they continue to ignore us.
I believe that an organized solidarity campaign, demanding respect for men, equal rights to be in the family, equal access and rights to be parents, and reform of family law.
I propose we make this an annual event, perhaps for the Friday before fathers day, to include a “blue day” where nobody works and everyone goes to their city hall or county adminstrative building to protest. Protests in DC will not work because most divorced men can’t afford the trip. This has to be a international, distributed effort.
These people won’t change until they see lots of bodies raising heck in the streets. This, I guarantee, as proven by my 19 years in this movement.
Do we have a “sane” group willing to organize this and keep the heat on year-after-year?
August 28th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
In my opinion, conservatives worship women and liberals hate men. Bottom line: men get hosed. I still believe that a massive campaign — coordinated with media (especially talk radio) involvement — will work. Men always give up or never try: the results speak for themselves.
Also, men can and must do what I suggest in my article: STOP KISSING WOMEN’S ASSES AND STOP GETTING MARRIED. What will Congress do when almost every child born is illegitimate? It will be a HUGE social-policy nightmare.
Keep putting pressure on elected officials. Keep denying women free meals and marriage. I’m telling you this will affect society.
Or, you can do nothing, as usual, and watch your ship slowly sink.
August 28th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
I think that political trends going back a decade and a half indicate that political parties (and their various interest groups/supporters) are becoming more homogenous and also moving away from the political “center.” Feminists (as a potent force) cannot be found in the Republican party, and have mostly taken their cause to the Democrats. Cultural conservatives have likewise moved away from the Democratic party and now are ever-present in the GOP. In other words, to be effective over the long term a movement needs to latch on to an existing political party or broader social movement. That’s the tactic feminists employed in the 1970s by latching on to the civil rights movement, and they were very successful.
In addition to massive letter writing campaigns (which are only effective in short spurts, such as affecting specific legislation) I think the way to go in the long term is to start debating within the conservative movement. Our chief opponents will be a few social conservatives who effectively ally themselves with feminists (their supposed arch enemies) in support of divorce law and family law. Conservatives want to increase the stakes for couples facing divorce, as a method of preserving the family. They want to make divorce as much a nightmare as possible so that couples will reconsider their divorces, and so they tacitly accept feminist policies.
The challenge to us is to remind such conservatives that it is women who initiate the lion’s share of divorces (2/3), and thus men who behave like honorable husbands and responsible fathers have no recourse. To play to the mentality of such conservatives, we need to convince them that existing law needs to be amended to more specifically target such women who are initiating these divorces. It is these women who need to be given pause before they break up the family, and public policy needs to reflect that change. This is the way to appeal to the feminists’ unwitting allies on the right — to enshrine the reforms we seek under the banner of “preserving the family.” If we concentrate our political energy on the right, we can dominate the right.
Like many of you, I don’t like the idea of co-opting a socially conservative agenda simply to obtain our goals. That is why our challenge is to get others to come to our side, and there are plenty of social conservatives who would love to “stick it to the feminists” with an infusion of political activity and momentum from the men’s movement. We must take over the conservative movement and make it our own. Forget about a broadbased movement in both parties; this only dilutes our energy.
Short term: Letter writing campaigns, phone campaigns, target specific legislation and electoral candidates
Long term: Take over the conservative movement, and thereby the Republican party and its immense political resources.
John Dias
Founder, DontMakeHerMad.com
August 28th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Hi,
I agree that letter writing does help, especially if you get 10 or more friends to write as well. They can ignore 1, but 10 is a trend. Also there is the old saying “money talks, bullshit walks” now imagine all Men in America claiming 8 on their taxes, putting what they would of paid in a money market account and not paying til 4/15 every year. Money not there for their for welfare queens, they will notice. Though i’d go a step further and reccomend all Americans do this, just to get an idea of how much of our pay goes to pay for lazy people and bridges to nowhere.
Debi912
August 28th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
I like the idea of increasing deductions.
Great dialog. Personally, I think that whatever change is to come will come as a result of hundreds of thousands of indivual men deciding that they’ve taken enough shit, acting on it in their individual lives, and finding like-minded men for support…kind of like the marriage “strike”, which I think is more a boycott than a strike. I think that American men, as a group, are too wrapped up in that silent, stoic and independant mindset to organize as marc advocates (Marc, I own your book, and love your message!). I also believe that other men are the first obstacle to overcome…most men are either stuck on chivalrous attitudes, thinking that womens’farts don’t stink, or they are oblivious and unconcerned about the issues, thinking that the MRA they know is a bit too “radical” or “extreme” until the day they get butt-fucked in family court. I see two more extreme outcomes…aquiescence or violence…more likely in the end than email campaigns.
August 28th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
We need to take a direct action approach. Letter writing will accomplish nil. We need to find out where the femnazi lawyers live and protest outside their homes. We need to find out where the “family court judges” live and protest outside their homes. We need to be heard, they need to listen. The system has taken everything from me, you are next, your sons will be slaves.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
vacationed, and bejeweled during the dating process. … insecurity defines women and their relationship with money … The study provides advice for financial planners
August 28th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
I think the marriage strike will have a HUGE impact. It’s trends will be obvious in under 10 years. In 10-20 years it will be a significant national issue.
The feminine archetype is now dominant in the U.S. and western world.
Feminism is causing the regression of women to the state of childhood: i.e., rights without responsibilities, consumption without production. For men, feminism has caused the opposite: responsibilities without rights. People with responsibilities but no rights are slaves. We are currently headed for a world in which women are children and men are slaves.
Feminsim is evil and I predict a “perfect storm†in approximately 20-30 years. Another generation of boys without fathers. A big push in gay activism in law. Caucasian America is already reproducing at comparably lower rates relative to other groups. Currently almost 50% of our secondary schools are made up of underperforming minorities (Blacks & Hispanics) with no American identity or an interest in one, and in 20 years, will force the U.S. to compete with the Chinese and Indians with approximately half of it’s workforce. These people will not be in college. They will be in the lower or underground economy. 70% of Black families have no father. In second generation Hispanics (and higher) the percentage is higher. We are looking at a HUGE increase of out of wedlock births. Huge social costs that will not correct the root cause (if history serves as a guide). So half the population has to compete with China and India with a punitive tax burden. Men will continue to retreat from society. The MGTOW philosophy will quietly cause change. As more and more women see men turning away some of these will wonder why. Some women may even one day be capable of an honest look at how men have been treated unfairly. Caucasians will also have a culture of fatherlessness but a bigger issue will be that Caucasian men will not produce offspring. America is slowly collapsing. In 20-40 years America may disintegrate into distinct regions that have not integrated culturally with their border regions. I think if the government passes amnesty for illegals that this will accelerate America’s disintegration. Citizenship will cease to have meaning. At least 100 million illegals with no interest to assimilate. We will be North American’s not U.S. citizens anymore living in a country filled with a huge and growing underclass demanding more and more.
The government, politicians, and elites have caused so much social damage that it is impossible to steer the ship in the right direction in time. There will be a huge increase in gang activities in some regions. There will probably be race wars. Incomes will drop because we will not compete well with China and India and this will breed discontent all over America. China will be a military threat challenging us across the globe, jockeying with the U.S. for dominance. We have replaced the male archetype with the feminine archetype which will be completely unable to deal with these problems-many of which it created.
We as a nation have been very slow, and are only now beginning to see that feminine evil exists. We have long recognized masculine evil. I don’t think America will come to grasp the extent of feminine evil unless it is spoken about out loud.
The intelligent man chooses his friends wisely. Any male that is a feminist enabler is the enemy. American women who are feminist and feminist sympathizers are the enemy. American women who claim to be for men’s rights but part ways with men when their own biases get challenged are the enemy. The intelligent man chooses his friends wisely and plans his life intelligently. The government is doing everything it can to destabilize this society.
The intelligent man sees what’s going on and plans his own survival accordingly. The matriarchy will one day be existing in a living hell of it’s own creation.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
btw-The intelligent man discussed above will be sitting on top of the dysfunctional American culture. The intelligent man sees American women for what they are: a dead end. The divorce statistics prove this. The entitlement mentality, the self-love above all else, prove this.
August 28th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Men we are dealing with a situation that is no different from a totalitarian or fascist group systematically marginalizing another group.. namely us Men..
The only solution is to build up your family and home life with a woman who has traditional values. You family is your fortress but first you must build a strong one that will last and then protect it.
Having a marriage to a traditional russian woman for example is an idea solution for this. You can read more about this at my site if you wish..
http://russianwomen.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/your-freedom-in-the-face-of-feminism-and-facism/
Good Luck!
GL
August 28th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Returning to “traditional values” makes little sense to me. It is a utopian dream based on a fantasy of the past. We have moved on. If you bring a Russian woman to this country, how long will it take her to learn the system? Weeks. Eastern European women believe in fleecing men. What better place for them than the USA?
In an era when women have more rights than men, can earn as much as they want, and can manipulate the courts, marrying a woman who earns nothing is a recipe for disaster: she can destroy you in divorce court.
Marry a woman who earns a lot of money, who LOVES men, who believes in fairness. My book — http://www.bookworld.com/bottom.cfm?content=feature&I030_cust_ref_01=0-9745017-1-9Â – tells you how to do this. And … one more thing … get an airtight prenup!
August 29th, 2006 at 8:38 am
I would caution against tying the men’s movement with conservatism. Why? Because the feminists and liberals will easily split minority men off from the movement by offering goodies and playing on the anti-white male sentiments that exist in the minority communities. This would isolate white males and their simply are not enough of us to have any political force.
I actually think it would be better to try to attach ourselves the the democratic party even though a lot of us find many within that party to be repugnant. Talk up the civil rights aspects of our cause and make sure many non-white faces are spoke people when addressing the media and politicians.
August 29th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Instead of making this a party issue, I believe that all men’s-rights activities must transcend parties and politics.
Suggested party-neutral message: Any degradation of men — by any person or any law — is a move to destroy marriage, the family, and children.
MensNewsDaily could become a petition engine to help us blast the lawmakers. Imagine the volume of petitions constantly going to Washington and state capitols, to make our voices heard. Contact Mike Lasalle to suggest it.
August 30th, 2006 at 2:02 am
I was told by Mr. Rudov after I e-mailed him to post this message here:
There might be a way to bring mens/boys issues to light by getting involved in a class action lawsuit:
http://news.mensactivism.org/node/5746
Posted on Wed, 2006-08-02 16:39.
All 3000+ county classactions are tentatively scheduled for nationwide simultaneous court filings during “Constitution Week” (Sept 17-23), assuming a couple of remaining manpower factors are leveraged into proper place by that time.
Plaintiffs are THREE “Classes”: (1) noncustodials; (2) young adult children of custody; (3) any taxpayer — YES, each and every one of the 230+ million American taxpayers are eligible Plaintiffs in these lawsuits against family court injustices.
The summary of the lawsuit is located here:
http://www.indianacrc.org/ncp-n-taxpayer.html
You need to find the county in which the local coordinator is located and that list of states can be found here:
http://www.indianacrc.org/classactionco.html
And finally as a last resort if you have problems here is their contact page:
http://www.indianacrc.org/contacticrc.html.
Here is the banner to link to their web site:
http://www.indianacrc.org/images/icrc2004banner.gif
Lastly, I’ve been reading the articles by Jeff Adams and he feels the same way I do about the political parties in this country. Well, I just found out about a third party that looks promising it’s called the Freedom Party.
Here is their US site:
http://www.freedomparty.us
Their front page has not changed so please contact them and ask them to set up a blog to communicate with people interested in their party:
http://www.freedomparty.us/e-mail/e-mail.feedback.htm
they have an international site located here:
http://www.freedomparty.org
and the most active site is located in Ontario:
http://www.freedomparty.on.ca
I hope this will help make a difference.
Mezz Mezzrow Jr.
August 30th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
I was told by Mr. Rudov after I e-mailed him to post this message here:
There might be a way to bring mens/boys issues to light by getting involved in a class action lawsuit:
http://news.mensactivism.org/node/5746
Posted on Wed, 2006-08-02 16:39.
All 3000+ county classactions are tentatively scheduled for nationwide simultaneous court filings during “Constitution Week” (Sept 17-23), assuming a couple of remaining manpower factors are leveraged into proper place by that time.
Plaintiffs are THREE “Classes”: (1) noncustodials; (2) young adult children of custody; (3) any taxpayer — YES, each and every one of the 230+ million American taxpayers are eligible Plaintiffs in these lawsuits against family court injustices.
The summary of the lawsuit is located here:
http://www.indianacrc.org/ncp-n-taxpayer.html
You need to find the county in which the local coordinator is located and that list of states can be found here:
http://www.indianacrc.org/classactionco.html
And finally as a last resort if you have problems here is their contact page:
http://www.indianacrc.org/contacticrc.html.
Here is the banner to link to their web site:
http://www.indianacrc.org/images/icrc2004banner.gif
Lastly, I’ve been reading the articles by Jeff Adams and he feels the same way I do about the political parties in this country. Well, I just found out about a third party that looks promising it’s called the Freedom Party.
Here is their US site:
http://www.freedomparty.us
Their front page has not changed so please contact them and ask them to set up a blog to communicate with people interested in their party:
http://www.freedomparty.us/e-mail/e-mail.feedback.htm
they have an international site located here:
http://www.freedomparty.org
and the most active site is located in Ontario:
http://www.freedomparty.on.ca
I hope this will help make a difference.
Mezz Mezzrow Jr.
January 16th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
[...] I have little use or patience for endless discussion and theorizing. I continue to see the professional and financial progress of “independent women” (read “Women to Rule Men by 2010″), and I am one of the biggest supporters of female achievement — which is why I constantly rail against entitled women. So, I propose the following steps that our misandric state and federal lawmakers, mostly men, can take before the next US Census: [...]
March 16th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Men need to stop living by society’s rules. Fuck society, wake up and smell the coffee, the coffee you bought with your money that you harvested and sold not more then one day ago, get it? Don’t through money at women, they have jobs, if they don’t want to have a relationship with you then throwing money at them wont change any thing. You have a hand, use it, got it. Oh and here is one for you, Let them ask you out, Trust me it works, all my girl friends have asked me out, no lie, if you don’t go to them then they will come to you, and if they don’t then once again throwing money at them will change nothing. As for the governments bullshit misandry laws, Men hating laws, just don’t do what they say. If they start a draft and want you to go to war because your a man don’t, it’s that simple. they cant put everyone in prison, eventually they will have to draft women because there are no men that will go. the simple truth is if you want to fight the power of misandry and gain equality for real just reject the system and live for yourself, then and only then everything will change.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:43 am
[...] I continue to see the professional and financial progress of “independent women” (read “Women to Rule Men by 2010″), and I am one of the biggest supporters of female achievement — which is why I constantly [...]
September 20th, 2008 at 5:03 am
[...] recent article, “Women to Rule Men by 2010,” further exposed the entitled female’s hypocrisy. It cited a new study by Allianz, the [...]
September 20th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
‘Women to Rule by 2010′?
Women have ruled throughout history, so if is there’s going to be a culturally acknowledged powershift in 2010, I’m rather looking forward to it.
Feminist gains do not erode men’s rights when applied to men equally. So feminist principles, of equality of choice, should be embraced.
If MND readers go around screaming about feminism being evil, it appears to attack the progress women have made into traditionally male domains, and why would we want to do that if we get the choice to enter women’s traditional domains also?
Men’s rights activists should concentrate on dropping the anti-feminist label, and concentrate instead on simplifying the message. If women have a certain right/choice, we want exactly the same. Full stop. To this ends, some of us should be prepared to physically destroy any institution which refuses such a reasonable demand.
Give the security services a private ultimatum, whilst a political wing simultaneously wins the media argument, and then, if the changes are not made, attack (it’s what we men are good at!)
Every culture wrestles with it’s excess of young men. Why not put them in our army? It will use sleeper cells (as invented by the British) but it will be non violent to people, giving the authorities time to evacuate the buildings housing target infrastructure like sexist government departments, sexist charities, sexist media institutions and so on, which we will then put out of use.
Ask the government privately, so as not to corner it into a fight against terror it cannot be seen to back down from. Secondly, use the squeeky clean political wing to publicize the government’s refusal to cooperate with the PUBLIC’S demands for equality, despite concensus within the rational debate. Thirdly, give them a coded warning (I think the IRA invented that one), and if they don’t evacuate…
Unleash the gremlins
It is easy to set up a sleeper cell in advance without it being infiltrated, and then carrying out a preset hit list on preset dates, because the big men’s issues targets are fairly fixed, and will be there for years to come, like the draft office, the divorce courts, the sentencing boards, the dv centres, the unproven rape allegation publicists, the female only governmental departments, university departments refusing gender-balanced curriculums, and indeed any female only establishment actively seeking to exclude men or men’s issues.
Steve Moxon argues the suffragettes were pushing at an open door politically speaking, but in order to rally the women, they had to smash stuff up a bit, and get themselves arrested, etc, which meant the establishment could not be seen to then immediately capitulate and give them the vote, even though the elite wanted women to have the vote, as they realised it a good idea. Nevertheless, wishing to forgive and forget the little angels, women got the vote in a matter of decades.
I am not so sure men are pushing at quite such an open door, because although the political elite realize it a good idea to liberate men, there are a lot of women employed in all-women groups, who will actively resist any dilution of their powers. It is women who sex segregate for gain, and they will probably want to keep it that way, where as Victorian men would have been very grateful for the introduction of women into their all male territories.
We already know that all women’s groups will never be reasonable and accept men and men’s issues, so bypass them, and target their funders. Media practitioners like Marc Rudov will emerge in every territory, persuading the general population with the facts, and the sleeper cells will do the rest, if necessary. By avoiding publicity for the terrorists’ actions, the group can achieve its demands, while the government is seen to be merely carrying out the will of the people – something it had deep down, been meaning to do anyway, once it got round to it.
We need to eliminate the time between women gaining new rights, and men gaining the same rights.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:18 am
Women have at least three sets of income:
1. “For Women Only” entitlements from the government and from private agencies
2. Income willingly or unwillingly transferred from men to women such as the costs of dating, financial support during marriage, and an unearned share of material assets and child support in divorce.
3. Their own income, which is augmented by any number of special programs and affirmative action admission and retention policies at colleges as well as affirmative action at business hiring.
What is the foundation for all of those unfair advantages granted to women?
That’s easy, and it is the core thing that many in the men’s movement blithely ignore:
MATERNAL PRIMACY. WHICH HAS TWO KEY PARTS.
Part #1. RAISING THE CHILDREN. Fathers need to be equally involved in raising the children from newborn infancy forward, and ideally the primary caregivers of their children in as many cases as possible. Female dominance of parenthood is THE basis for feminism, and thus for discrimination against men in general and against fathers in specific. Correspondingly, it is the basis for putting mothers and women up on a pedestal (because they are there for the kids in terms of time) while demonizing men (who are not there for the children in terms of time when the woman is the stay at home primary caregiver and the man is earning money for her all day as the “provider”). For feminism to end, fathers must raise their own children. Equally at least. Primarily at best.
Part #2. ABORTION: So long as women can kill the children of men by abortion, men stand deprived of the right in law to protect the lives of their own children. Thus, while that continues, the loss of all other rights of men will seem completely palatable by comparison. So all MRA and FRA folks should agree that, legally, no abortion should happen without the signature of both parents, with both being subject to enormous fines if mandatory DNA tests prove that the man signing for it was not the biological father.
I am against abortion completely, but in the meantime such a law would save a lot of lives and would establish that men have a natural right to protect the lives of their own children from the point of conception forward, which is where fatherhood begins.
That embraces the core of what being a man is all about, and lays the foundation for all other rights for men to be recognized in law.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I don’t think society is about to force conscription on women. I suspect very few men or women would likely support that.
If men get equality under the law, men must then take the next step and demand some special privileges for men (or at least those men who are conscripted) to compensate for the fact that only men will ever be consrcipted.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Zorik:
There are two distinct questions with regards to conscription.
One is: should women be conscripted into being on the front lines of war?
The other is: should women, who get to vote, have an equal obligation to fulfill some sort of compulsory service obligation if called upon to do so?
It is unfortunate that discussion of the second question tends to get forestalled by it being conflated wholly unnecessarily with the first question.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
FathersHaveNaturalRights,
Some kind of compulsory service is not necessarily the same as putting your life on the line.
I think we agree (please correct me if I’m wrong) that there will be never be true equality between men and women if we define equality as the same laws applying to both in all situations. Laws regarding who has to fight in actual combat would be the primary (and perhaps only?) case in which different laws would necessarily apply.
So there has to be some compensatory factor. e.g. If men have to fight on the front line and not women, those that do deserve some compensating benefit for the risks they take.
For decades we have heard women demand “equal opportunity” for the good jobs but never “equal responsibility” for war service, etc.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Sigh. Marc has a lot of good ideas, but there is no such thing as an air tight pre-nup. Anyone who has done even a minimum of legal research realizes in most states judges are specifically authorized by state code to tear up any pre-nup if the judge feels the result is unjust, no matter how well written it may be. Period.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:52 am
I didn’t have a chance to read all of the comments, but did anybody mention that men have lost 82% of the jobs in the recent economic mess?
Women don’t even lose their jobs!
It also seems to me that Men are far more interested in selling products in this area (Men’s Rights; Foreign Dating Services, etc.), but aren’t interested in solutions.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:20 am
In response to “men have lost 82% of the jobs in the recent economic mess,” women make up the majority of the health care and education force that is recession proof and actively growing. Don’t pout. Women have been promoted for as long as I can remember to become nurses or teachers. That those are more of “women” jobs. So, if men went out and screwed up the economy with their “man” jobs, don’t blame the women for being the ones left with employment.
Donating sperm out-of-wedlock to produce a child, claiming that they have absolute and equal rights is ludicrous. Men’s part in it can take 5 minutes where for a woman it will take 9 months of carrying the child in which the child bonds to the mother. The child does not bond to the father based on DNA. And then what would happen legally if suddenly sperm donors decided they wanted legal rights to the children they produced based on DNA? Woman bare the child, the child bonds to them, they spend the most time with the child, even in a married relationship. Courts will always rule in favor of the mother because the majority of the time the children are more bonded to them, and the women do know what’s in the child’s best interest since they’ve spent the majority of the time raising them.
As to seeing women as peers. That sounds like an excellent idea if you would like to see more women turn to lesbianism and abandon you completely or…not date you. I’m sure women would be perfectly ok with being complete peers if men agree to always go to the gym and keep in shape and physically fit, waxes the majority of their body hair and keep it maintained, learn how to dress and to design an apartment or home in something other than black leather or chrome, learn to cook, clean up after themselves and not expect a maid or a woman to do it, contribute to the child rearing by spending active time with the children, go to their PTA meetings, girl scout troop meetings, etc.
Women spend an equal amount to men in their personal maintenance, that men expect from them. Without it they are wallflowers and the girls that don’t get asked out. So, you lower your standards of your expectation of women or you measure them in all of the time, money and work they put into themselves.
If your statement is that chivalry is next to impotency, what do you bring to the table? Sperm? Companionship? I can assure you that without finances, most men can barely take care of themselves. They are socialized to go out and concur, the majority are not taught how to take care of themselves other than that. I currently have 2 male roommates and I can assure you, after having been previously spoiled by men that do know how to take care of themselves, I had completely forgotten that the majority do not, and now I am stuck with dirty, smelly, video game playing boys who expect the next “mother” to come along and clean up after them and wipe their noses, while they think they’re going to go out and rule the world.
Wake up. Women are doing better in the work force because women are socialized to collaborate and work together. Men are socialized to concur, be the best, be number one. I worked in an industry dominated by women because they worked together and they knew how to nurture their workers and get the job done. Whenever I experience men playing key roles, they spent a good portion of the time bickering with other men, trying to back stab them or one up them, not caring if the project would suffer at the expense of their c**k fighting. The women would sit back quietly, smooth over the mens egos, and then work amongst themselves to insure the project took first priority.
Get over it. Stop up and do your part instead of whining like a bunch of b**ches.