Thanks.
An industry exists today in the writing of pieces proclaiming the weakness of men and the superiority of women, a favorite word in the description of men being “fragile.” I weary of it. Women of course engage in this, as do some heterosexual men. Much is made, and should be, over the rising majority of women over men in the universities and some some professions. What is this about?
It is not about reality. Fragile men hold nearly every Olympic record in sports in which men compete. In professional sports the sexes compete separately because otherwise there would be no women’s sports. On test after test of mental ability, men regularly outscore women: SATs, GREs, National Merit, and so on. In psychometry, it is settled knowledge that at the high end of the scale of intelligence, men outnumber women, and that the higher you go, the more the male preponderance; the disparity in mathematical talent is stark. Even an avowedly liberal psychologist, Paul Irwing of the University of Manchester, writing in The Independent, unhappily confessed that there are twice as many men as women with IQs about 120 and 30 times as many over 170. On the other hand, women live longer.
Why, then, the relative decline of men in so many professions?
Some of it is probably that women tolerate the routine (men would say “boredon”) that characterizes most jobs today. Some of it is simply that women are finally competing. On their merits, a lot of women are better than a lot of men at a lot of things, so that, even if we decided things by ability, they would rise. This would be as it should be. But we don’t decide things primarily by merit. We decide them by race, creed, color, sex, and national origin.
There is today an enormous amount of affirmative action in favor of women and against men. Much of it is hidden. For example, when boys outperformed girls badly on the National Merit test, a fairly high-end test of scholastic ability, it was modified to reduce the disparity. Few know this.
Much affirmative action, though absurd, occurs openly. When Larry Summers, then president of Harvard, noted that men are better at mathematics, about which there is no doubt, feminists cowed Harvard into promising fifty million dollars to recruit female professors. This is nothing more than extortion. (For an adult and most politically incorrect exposition of this, Griffe Du Leon serves well.)
The SATs were recently slanted (“recentered,” I meant to say) to make bright members of the affirmative-action classes (chiefly women and blacks) indistinguishable from Asian and Caucasian males of much higher ability. Universities can then accept the bright girls over the brighter boys without an appearance of discrimination.
School, always unpleasant for rambunctious boys, which is almost to say boys, has been made almost unbearable for them. To be blunt, the schools have been feminized to the point of being hostile to boys, and particularly to bright boys. The sports and roughhousing that boys love have been outlawed as too violent; boys who point fingers and say “bang” are expelled; boys who are not adequately somnolent are drugged by the schools. Competition, upon which boys thrive, is now verboten. When boys reach college, they are likely to be subjected to anti-sexism training which amounts to little more than sanctioned hazing. This seems to spring from sheer female hostility.
But it is working.
In jobs, there is unending pressure to put women (and blacks) into jobs regardless of qualifications; the price for questioning this policy is high. The practice is packaged as pursuit of equality, but it isn’t: If eighty percent of students in a medical school are female, this is a triumph for women, but if eighty percent are male, it is sexist discrimination and results in recruitment of women by any means.
Special privilege for women is pervasive and enforced by the full weight of government. The federal government has special set-asides and sweetheart deals for businesses owned by women (and blacks). In the military physical standards as well as the rigorousness of training were greatly diminished so that women could pass. Big Sister watches carefully. A friend of mine moonlights as a one-man shop in graphic design. Periodically he gets a federal form asking how many blacks, women, and so on he employs. Heavy fines attach to failure to respond or false answers.
Further, much policy aims at preventing women from having to compete with men, while making it look as if they were. For example, a company that doesn’t hire enough women (or blacks) is subject to federal persecution and private lawsuits; if it then fails to promote them in statistically correct numbers, a company will again pay a heavy price. So it hires them. It is then reported that women (and blacks) are making great strides. Objective measures of merit are discouraged or forbidden. Try giving IQ tests to prospective employees.
A conspicuous example of the illusion of competitiveness was the television show Eco-Challenge in which teams raced each other over courses that required mountain biking, rappelling, swimming, and other physically demanding chores. The rules stated that each team of women had to include at least one man, and each team of men, at least one woman. This produced an appearance of sexual equality. But of course, since the teams had to stay together, each moved only as fast as its slowest member. The women were superb athletes and have my admiration. Yet the question, which this arrangement was designed to avoid answering, is what would have happened if all-male teams had been allowed to compete.
Then there is compulsory togetherness. Great governmental and political emphasis falls, thump, on keeping men from doing anything by themselves. If men want a bar or club of their own where they can enjoy masculine company, women will fight furiously to quash it. Logically they could as well start a bar for women only, to which no man would object. All-male colleges must be integrated (though not all-female ones). There is in all of this a tacit admission of inadequacy: Those who genuinely believe that they can compete don’t need federally enforced social access.
Historically of course merit has mattered less than membership in the right group. In particular, men maintained their dominance for thousands of years without regard to the merits of females. In 1900 there were women qualified to serve in congress, or for that matter to do almost anything, but were not allowed to, and there were many men who weren’t qualified but did serve. It is annoying to those whites and males who opposed special privilege by race and sex to find that that blacks and women do not want equal opportunity, but special privilege.
But perhaps the math department at Harvard doesn’t matter. If no further scientific discovery were ever made, we would be well fed, comfortable, and replete with with video iPods. The modern part of the world, no longer wild and impoverished, has become a vast bureaucracy. Offices require stability and predictability, not great talent, and efficiency seldom matters. What the hell.
Apologetic Note: Last week I mentioned the story about the grown-up Bush going into a supermarket and being astonished by the check-out technology. A reader informs me that this didn’t happen. Since I have spent a lot of time grousing about scuh fables, as for example the $600 toilet seat, I am embarrassed to have done it myself. With luck, you won’t have read this far.
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Denis said,
January 8, 2007 at 8:58 pm
mirwalk said,
What it will take is a large organized amount of men to take care of the problem. I would like to include women, but face it the ones on our side are extremely small in number. If you try to include alot of women then the whole thing would be pulled more to feminism again. No offense meant to those women who truly back us.
Also alot of these changes are not publicized or well known, even to men’s groups. There are a few men trying to recitify this and kudos to them.
Sometimes I really wish something HUGE would happen in the country to smack it across the head and wake it up. I think it would take something akin to Pearly Harbor to get us going again. 9/11 was similar, but it didn’t have a well defined enemy. The terrorists are too nebulous to really put a bead on.
It would be nice if someone just nuked Hollywood. That would take a big chunk out of the liberal feminist propaganda machine.
January 8, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Ragnar said,
Besides that I believe we got the politicians, professors and media moguls we deserve!
They cannot speak up on our behalf if they never hear us speaking up. Their hands become tied to the ‘public opinion’ as it manifests itself in public.
So I agree that men should speak up on their own behalf, stand their grounds and not give a damn about anything else.
This attitude can spread and is getting more common among men.
January 9, 2007 at 2:50 am
tonysprout said,
It is the politicians’ jobs to keep us divided, to keep us arguing. With our attention caught up in this equal rights bullshit it’s much easier for them to introduce their new world order: Socialism, where every benefit you receive from the gov’t is offset by a demand to give up certain rights and freedoms. The clincher is that this gov’t will siphon off so much money from the masses that only the truly rich will be free from gov’t intrusion. It will serve women to take notice; this gov’t WILL force them to get abortions, to have a permit to be pregnant. When a pregnancy is permitted, the gov’t will make sure you don’t smoke or drink, or dance, or whatever else THEY decide is the best interests of their future citizens.
The world of tomorrow will suck equally for everyone thanks to feminism.
January 9, 2007 at 7:07 am
El Cid said,
White women did this by claiming they were treated just as badly in the past as blacks. They claimed victim status for themselves so they could become an entitled gender.
The result is that white women benefit more from affirmative action than black men.
January 9, 2007 at 9:55 am
Denis said,
Go to:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2005/11/19/margaret-sanger-more-feminist-hate/
The famous 1960’s feminist mantra, “No will man say that in the hand of woman rests the necessity of rocking a cradle only. She has within her hand the power to rule the world”, was actually published by the WKKK in Evansville, Indiana in the late 1880’s.
The feminists used the Black civil rights movement to their own advantage in the 1960s while at the same time staying true to their roots as a white female supremicist movement.
January 9, 2007 at 10:23 am
conservativation said,
Now, forget it at work, hell it’ll get you fired and the company sued.
Church, that insidious evangelical feminism is alive and well, and even women who don’t realize it are embracing the ideology. I do speak my mind, to a fault, and my wife and I go round and round. However, Ive seen the expression of realization unfold on a womans face as I describe all this to a friend of my wifes for example, and they come to see that they have been practicing thie idology and not even knowing it. The skill of manipulation is so refined in females that they can actually manipulate themselves, and not know it. A form of re-education camp is needed…
And church mens groups, which I have eagerly tried again and again, usually end up w/ me an outcast and told I don’t express myself “in love” as I listen to the feminist platitudes and male self bashing that is done at these meetings. No wonder women stood back and smiled proudly as men took off for Promise Keeper meetingas, they were going to indoctrination camps, whetre they can hold hands, ball like children, and sing. They go home and are rewarded with extra sex ration coupons!
All the set asides Fred rightly highlights are so entrenched, to be against it is perceived as being against having air to breath.
January 9, 2007 at 11:30 am
El Cid said,
A careful analysis would reveal that US society is structured so that white women benefit the most. Feminists are the hired guns who ensure this remains true.
January 9, 2007 at 11:57 am
donnieboy57 said,
January 9, 2007 at 11:59 am
wheresmy40 said,
MEN should NOT join the service to fight for a country that does not protect its citizens EQUALLY. It pains me greatly to say this but if enough young men heed this, perhaps some things will change.
MEN should NOT marry nor have children. Listen to those of us who have done either or both.
Affirmative action = discrimination.
Equal opportunity is a farce.
January 9, 2007 at 1:11 pm
NationalVoice said,
Yep, we’d all suffer under Islam, but at least we would all suffer rather then just men as it is today in this screwed up society.
January 9, 2007 at 1:45 pm