All around those of us in the United States, we see radical feminists push for still more female entitlements. Women get alimony after a divorce, but men generally do not, even though women are supposedly equal to men these days. Women benefit from special preferential quota programs in academia and the workplace, even though they are supposedly just as capable as men. The available birth control technology gives women far more choices that it gives men, even though men are supposedly in control of the large corporations researching and developing these technologies. The list of existing female entitlements is a long one, and this list is not intended to be exhaustive, but to illustrate what now exists.
What radical feminists fail to note is that the more they push for these female entitlements, the more women are indoctrinated into seeing themselves as and acting like children. This only weakens women, because they are thereby encouraged to become lazy complacent incompetent takers who live in a world of fantasy. According to this system, men must be the adults, the providers, the protectors, the logical and rational ones, the ones who grapple with the truth. Rather than in fact making women “more equal†relative to men, all these entitlements do is underscore the fact that women don’t think that they can make it on their own, that they need more and more help from men. This flies in the face of radical feminist slogans such as “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.†All that these entitlements do is broadcast loud and clear the great desire of women to remain children, to be taken care of by men (either directly by their fathers or by their husbands, or indirectly by the government through tax dollars collected from men).
These existing female entitlements, and the additional ones that are now so ardently being sought, do not liberate women. They in fact create a system that continues to communicate that women are vulnerable and dependent. These entitlements do not give women freedom; they lock women into being pampered slaves. They make American women much like Chinese women were a few hundred years ago, the women whose feet were broken, bound, and grossly distorted, the women who were unable to walk any significant distance. Both modern American women and these historic Chinese women are unable to fend for themselves, and unable to do the work that needs to be done. They were both crippled by the system.
When seen in its wide breadth (the large number of areas in normal life that are covered), and when seen in its unfairness and one-sidedness (the heavy burden placed on the shoulders of men), the entitlements that favor women may rightly be upsetting and disconcerting to men. But there is another perspective. Specifically, this system actually fosters empowering, responsible, caring, and giving behavior on the part of men. This system encourages men to grow up and deal with the nasty truths of life, such as the fact that the vast majority of us must to go out into the world and earn a living. In other words the net effect of this system of entitlements is to train women into being irresponsible children, and to train men into being responsible adults.
Now why exactly is that desirable for men? If men step back from the normal arrangements that enslave them, such as marriage, the arrangements that perpetuate both female irresponsibility and male responsibility, there is a void. Women then will be unable to take care of themselves; they will be in a dangerous, vulnerable and precarious position. For example, if no man will marry a bitchy feminist woman, she will be forced to go out into the world and hold down a job, she will be forced to pay her own bills, and she will be forced to deal with many dirty, unpleasant, and dangerous tasks that would otherwise have been handled by men in the now-past historical age of chivalry.
Another one of the arrangements that enslaves men to take care of women is a job in a government agency or a large corporation. Through sexual harassment laws and regulations, female-friendly preferential hiring and promotion policies, fuck-your-way-to-the top practices, and other anti-male structures, women are again given the green light to be, in fact encouraged to be, irresponsible lazy incompetent takers. If a few men step back from participating in these organizations, for example by having their own businesses instead, they can get freedom from these enslaving arrangements. But if a large number of men step back from participating with these organizations, we see that women will not be able to manage the organizations without them. Women will not be able to manage these firms with the discipline, commitment, self-responsibility, and tenacity that is necessary. The result will be the failure at, or at least severe loss of competitiveness at, these organizations. This phenomenon was aptly illustrated by a recent and revealing expose written by a woman who started her own all-women media firm in England. Her experiment was an unmitigated disaster with many women employees claiming that they deserved special treatment, many women spending excessive work hours gossiping and undercutting each other, and many women refusing to do the work that needed to be done. The firm is now out of business.
So if you step back and see the big picture, you will see that men aren’t actually in such a bad position — that is if you consider what these anti-male entitlements have created. They have created a population of adult women who in many cases act like children, who can’t deal with the real world, who live in a fantasy world. They have also created a population of adult men who act like responsible adults and parents, not just to their children but to their women as well. Now remove the structures that keep all the one-sidedness in place (marriage, jobs in large organizations, schools training men to be subservient, etc.) and what do we have? We have empowered men that can readily go on and do something else. And we have disempowered women who in many cases can’t do a damn thing useful in the world of work, who don’t really understand what it means to be responsible, who start to see how they have spent a grossly-large part of their time complaining about phantom issues, who see very quickly that this whole feminist experiment has been a massive distortion of reality.
Which leads us to the suggested strategy for men: don’t participate in those organizations, structures, and concepts that enslave you to women, that make you responsible for women, that put you in the position of being the only responsible adult. I’ve mentioned three here (marriage, jobs at large government agencies and large corporations, and schools that indoctrinate with the feminist perspective) but there are many others. I believe that men who are serious about their own liberation will be working hard on extricating themselves from these enslaving environments, and also creating alternatives that give them their life back. If a large enough number of us do just this, the twisted feminist experiment will rapidly collapse like the house of cards that it always was.
We men should not hesitate to abandon these antiquated and worn-out enslaving social structures, because we men are in fact better prepared to deal with, and to create, new ones. As a result of the acculturation mentioned above, men in America are now psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, and physically better prepared to shoulder the challenges, burdens, and responsibilities of new social structures. So why don’t we men decide not spend so much time complaining about the inequities and unfairness built into the current American system? Let’s instead focus on: how best to drop out of these social systems, how to create parallel but separate social systems, and how to create new more-equitable, more-realistic, and better-adapted social systems.
