“I am opposed to the women’s libs.” – Revenge of the Pink Panther
If I write a novel about the different shades of the color blue, is that cyans fiction?
Note: No podcast tomorrow. I’ve got a work thing that will take me right up until showtime, so I won’t have time to create the quality notes that drive the show, so I guess you’ll just have to wait until next week for the podcast that listeners describe as “usually punctual”.
While we spend a lot of time reading about the war in Ukraine or the war that Israel is involved in and realize that right now the only winners are Raytheon®, Boeing™, and Lockheed Martin©. I mean, it must be a relief for Boeing™ to try to design something that’s supposed to experience kinetic failure at high impact killing dozens. Sadly, their new Nerf™ ClusterBomb© isn’t having the combat impact they had hoped for.
I think, however, that those wars distract us from a much more important war: the war between the sexes.
This is Wednesday, so obviously we’ll be talking about the economic costs as well as the social costs, so we might as well start talking about that right now:
The root of the problem is that women are working. This was seen back in the day as a mechanism to get more cheap labor for business. Oh, that wasn’t the main point of Women’s Lib, just a nice byproduct. No, Women’s “Liberation” was first and foremost a tool of the GloboLeftElite to try to break apart the true atom of society, the family.
My brake pedal, though, wants therapy. It’s tired of being depressed.
And it worked, swimmingly. They knew it would, of course. When Edward Bernays was hired by the American Tobacco Company to get more women to smoke, he paid a lot of women to smoke during one Easter Day Parade in NYC. He tipped off the press that women suffragettes would be smoking “torches of freedom” and they took it from there. 99% of women over 45 at that day and time didn’t smoke.
Thankfully, for Marlboro®, the women were very susceptible to propaganda.
Just like at work. The progression went from, “get out and work” to “you don’t need no man” to “go to college and get an education and make big bucks”.
Now, as the meme goes, women are taught that devoting themselves to a husband and their children is slavery, but going to work at a faceless corporation for a man, which is, I guess, empowerment.
Women can be very capable and driven, so those that apply themselves early in their career (like men used to be taught to do) and push the long hours can reach success, in many cases, more easily than a man. And there are multiple problems embedded in this.
When women are working fifty-hour weeks, regardless of if they’re in a relationship, they defer having children. When they defer, that often means that their window of fertility closes without even a FedEx® envelope showing up marked, “Urgent, your chance to have a baby expires in 28 days.”
I hear that AOC occupied a fertility clinic. Being a communist, she wanted to seize the means of reproduction.
I recall one article I read about a fortysomething who had frozen a plethora of her eggs in anticipation that one day she’d have enough, that she’d be where she wanted to be to have those children that she had neglected to have when she was 23.
Oops. I can’t quote it exactly, but she talked about “raging, screaming like an animal” when she found out that her frozen eggs were about as viable as a Bernie Sanders presidential run. Although I’m not completely evil, I did enjoy a bit of epicaricacy at the thought. I know, it’s a bad habit, but in this case I was hoping that some 23-year-old read the news and decided to not become a regretful wine aunt.
But just the mechanism of women wanting to have great jobs is killing them. Women are (as far as I can see) programmed to find men that are better than them. They want a man who makes more money, but they also want to be high powered corporate lawyers, which takes, at minimum, enough effort to push to and through 35.
And those men that make more money than the women? They’re not looking for 35-year-old lawyer women, they’re looking for a 23-year-old Stacy who isn’t cynical after spending over a decade climbing the ladder. Women in that position have rendered themselves simultaneously undesirable and incapable of finding a man.
This one woman said she was a trophy wife, but her ears stuck out and the previous winners’ names were all tattooed down her back.
The Mrs. and I were having a conversation. Her thesis was that women were monogamous – they just had to find the right man. That would make sense. Again, from the newspaper, another 40 something woman (there are a lot of these stories), blows up her marriage of fifteen or twenty years. Leaves it to find and reconnect with the man that had been The One that she had dated for a month or six before she met her husband.
In my favorite version, the man has no, absolutely zero, recollection of the woman. She is an Alpha Widow, forever pining for that Alpha she had back in the day.
The probability that a woman becomes an Alpha Widow increases with every sex partner that she has. Whether or not The Mrs. is right, the facts show that if a woman spends her 20s in dissolute sex, the chances that she’ll be psychologically able to remain faithful to man number thirty or sixty plummets to zero. For women who view that their sexual worth is not determined by massive numbers of partners, I’d ask who wants to buy a pair of shoes that have been worn by 126 dudes?
Almost any woman can have an Alpha for a night, but the problem is that once they’ve had one, they feel that’s what they deserve.
All of this, together, is what I call The Big Lie that women have been told.
I weigh a fraction of what I did in school. An improper fraction, but still, a fraction.
This has consequences. The first is that the average Alpha loves it. He can get as much sex as he wants, when he wants it. The Beta, though, is getting wise, and having an Alpha Widow isn’t what he’s interested in.
The consequences are lowered male investment and engagement in society. Women expect to be protected by men on the subway, but elect the District Attorney that turns the rapists back to the street, and sit on the juries that convict men attempting to protect them.
Additionally, men are shying away from doing the things that make them high value. Why engage in those behaviors if they can’t attract the attention of a decent woman? Despite modernity’s challenges, what men really want is a marriage and children. That’s it. It’s wickedly simple.
Women ask, “Where have all the good men gone?” The answer is simple. They’re either married to someone else, or the men never chose the path of radical self-improvement required to make them better. Why work fifty hours and then work out when the prospect of a family is raising Chad’s kid with Chad’s Alpha Widow?
Yup, that’s an Alpha Widow.
Outside of the political consequences, this has also created a sharp political divide. The younger groups are skewing away from each other, based on sex. Women seek the party of least responsibility so they can kill babies at will and thus make the big bucks making PowerPoints™. Men are tired of the game, and are seeking what has been lost to them, which they see being fulfilled through nationalism and populism.
It’s a train wreck ready to happen.
Again, the good news is we always win this one. Will it be horrible and difficult? Yes. But it is a battle that has been fought for centuries, and always, the family ends up winning in the end.
Otherwise? None of us would be here. Which will also be the outcome if someone doesn’t stop Boeing®. Seriously. These guys need to be stopped before . . . oh, too late.
Elder son’s live-in GF is a thoroughly modern woman, in that she is post-Wall, neurotic, entitled, and rabidly insecure. Oh, and she also guzzles wine like it’s her job (which is actually some nebulous position in HR, the lofty title of which escapes me at the moment). She flit from one guy to the next all through her late teens and 20s, then lived with a guy for 6 years before we knew her, all the while debating whether or not to have, or even want, children.
She found my son through some spectacular stroke of good fortune, and finally decided, at age 35, that she is ‘ready’ to start a family. But my son was just recently divorce-raped, and has two of his own with his psycho ex. He is adamant that there will be no more children for him. And no more weddings.
Absolute conundrum, therefore, for live-in GF, who doesn’t know whether to sh!t or go blind. Staying with my son is a reproductive dead end for her, for he is, as I say, adamant about no more children. But he is such a rare catch, possessing those three 6’s in abundance (6+ feet tall, 6 figure income, 6-pack abs) that she guards access to him with supreme jealousy. She has described what a trip to the grocery store with him is like, given all the attention that a tall, fit, handsome fellow receives. (“You! Tits! Step AWAY from the boyfriend! And button up!” “Yo, b!tch in the short shorts! Stop staring at my man and put some clothes on!”)
She’s not leaving. And she’s not going to get the family she (finally) wants. Result? Frustration, which she takes out on society at large by dying her hair purple and scowling at the world with her patented resting b!tch face. And she is hardly alone. Her gardening group, her reading club, most of her coworkers, both of her sisters and even their mother are all in the same lost and lonely, frustrated female society (FFS).
All I can say is, reap what you’ve sown, ladies.
MG
Hope your son doesn’t live in one of those states where the law says they’re as good as married after living together for so long.
Texas, FWIW. So far as I know, there is no common law marriage recognition in the state (fingers crossed).
MG
Suppose Elder son had decided a divorce property settlement based on not weighing faults was unacceptable, and proceeded to not accept it by shooting all of the LEO and family court employees who tried to impose it. What then? Would you have hidden him in your attic? Would your “friends” have snitched on you/him after you confided in them? Snitching is far beyond giving aid and comfort to the enemy, it’s giving actionable military intelligence as a spy. Let’s accurately count your family group/tribe’s contribution to the policies which have victimized your son. No-fault divorce is actively supported by over one hundred million commies.
Suppose Elder son had decided a divorce settlement based on not weighing faults and apportioning blame was unacceptable, and proceeded to not accept it by shooting all of the LEO and family court employees who tried to impose it at gunpoint. What then? Do you think he should obey all the laws no matter how unfair they are, and he should get on the boxcar as ordered? Or would you have hidden him in your attic? Would your “friends” have snitched on you/him after you confided in them? Snitching is beyond giving aid and comfort to the enemy, it’s giving actionable military intelligence as a spy. Let’s accurately count the snitches’ contribution to the policies which have victimized your son. No-fault divorce is actively supported by over one hundred million commies.
Ouch. I can’t imagine she’s fun to be around. Your son is wise not to further entangle himself.
Why engage in those behaviors if they can’t attract the attention of a decent women.
Typo, should be woman.
Sorry.
Fixed. Thank you for pointing it out!
“Epicaricacy”? Really, John? It degrades your work to use short, simple-minded words like these when there are perfectly good longer and more cultured-sounding versions like “schadenfreude”. Always go German when you are talking about guilty pleasure…
But I digress. IMHO, the high powered lawyer Karen freezing her eggs is an interesting strawman to talk about but far from common. There’s 211 million women in the workforce…
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/occupations/most-common-occupations-women-labor-force
and a total of “only” up to around 100,000 or so have had eggs frozen over the decades (estimated number – 36K before 2019, 12K in 2020…) at a cost of $10K down and $1K per year storage….
https://www.newhopefertility.com/blog/the-cost-of-freezing-eggs/
So Rich Bi*ch Frozen Egg Karens delaying motherhood are thus only around 0.05 % of the demographic fertility rate crisis the US faces. The 625,000 abortions per year have a much greater impact on fertility – and family formation, which is your main, er, thrust.
Abortions are by definition evidence of recreational sexual activity rather than family formation, but I personally don’t think it’s promiscuity and search for the next / better man that leads women to become an Alpha Widow. Instead, they just decide it’s not worth the emotional stress to live with the flawed man they’ve got when they can get by with government support, child support, and their own crummy job – which from those employment statistics above is more likely to be a punch-the-time-clock nurse/teacher/clerk/cashier/cleanup job than some career requiring focusing extra attention on the job at the expense of family.
IMHO, this disposability and rejection is the real thing lowering male investment and engagement in society – not just by their marital partners, but by society itself. They see they’re not wanted in the military, they’re not wanted in physical jobs where they can be replaced by immigrants, and the women have the upper hand in mental pursuits such as college and job recruitment due not only to DEI quotas but in many cases superior abilities and performance.
No wonder they just wanna stay in the basement and play dopamine-hit video games.
[the women have the upper hand in mental pursuits such as college and job recruitment due … in many cases superior abilities and performance.]
An assertion in need of evidence.
[There’s 211 million women in the workforce…]
Eh? In the US? Seems a bit high, given that the official US population is about 330M.
You, sir/madame, are correct. That Department of Labor link I referenced breaks down the MOST COMMON JOBS of 21.1 million women, not 211 million. That’s what I get for posting first thing in the morning when I am still groggy from waking up. I shoulda known myself that my original number didn’t sound right, sorry.
Here’s a link with better breakdown of ALL JOBS. The real facts: There’s 161 million total employed in the US out of 330 million people, and 46.9 % or 75.5 million of them are employed women.
https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
As for women vs. men in mental-oriented jobs…
https://hbr.org/2019/06/research-women-score-higher-than-men-in-most-leadership-skills
Of course, that’s from the Harvard Business Review, so who knows, take it with a grain or two of salt? At least it’s not authored by Claudine Gay.
I liked the use of “epicaricacy,” as it forced me to do the look-it-up thing. From context, I thought it would be synonymous with schadenfreude, and — sure enough — it was. But, yeah, the German one is easier to say and sounds better.
Epicaricacy (“joy at the misfortune of others”)is the preferentially correct word choice in English-speaking countries.
Schadenfreude is the word choice for Germanophones, and posers trapped in a web of pseudointellectualism. They self-identify as the latter by using it. It’s diagnostic. 😉
And epicaricacy (which is so uncommonly used that it gets a “red underline as a possible misspelled word” when typed into the comment area here) is the choice of true intellectuals who learn their vocabulary from sources other than The Simpsons. 🙂
Most word processor programs are written by illiterates.
But I’m open to the use of schadenboner as an excellent linguistic syncretism.
You’re right, but my favorite German word is still bratwurst.
It is a strawman, but it’s a very visible one. The idea is to shock younger women into being mothers again. I know, good luck.
G.K. Chesterton talked about what was coming over 100 years ago.
Songs of Education by G.K. Chesterton Part III: For the Creche
https://youtu.be/1Q1twSPhUC8
For that matter, I have a few of my own thoughts.
Uncomfortable Thoughts: The Dyscivic Education of Women
https://youtu.be/UaZNmtup7lc
Yup. Chesterton was wonderful.
It is a double sided problem because if we are being honest, the flip side of the equation (young men) aren’t exactly putting their collective best feet forward. It was a struggle for most of us to ask girls out when I was young in the 1980s but now young men can disappear to their room, play video games and watch unlimited, free porn of whatever variety they want. It takes two to tango and while I take a backseat to no one when it comes to criticizing young women, young men need to be the sort of person a woman wants to devote herself to. I know it is easier especially for men to just throw stones at women but our sex isn’t blameless in this.
Excellent point. Women have issues but many young guys aren’t helping the situation. My step-daughter has dated some real losers who put no effort into school, getting a job, or even keeping a job. Many treat her like crap and at least one has come close to physical abuse.
There are some respectable guys that have dated her as well, but my daughter has no interest in them. She only wants the bad boy guys who treat her like crap and sponge off of her. I don’t understand this, but it doesn’t surprise me as I often encountered this in my youth as well.
Modern boys spend fourteen years in public screwels being aught they are inherently both evil and inferior. They are routinely punished for being male while the girls are placed upon pedestals no matter their actual behavior.
Oh, that was in there, too. But if women are unavailable because, there’s no reason. Thus, NEETs.
I am happy to share that I now have a print version of my novel The Mayor of Christ Mountain. For the moment, I’m handling everything myself, so if you want one of the (few) copies currently available, you’ll have to contact me directly. I can do PayPal or we can figure something else out.
It’s $14 + $4 for basic shipping.
It is still available for free online starting here (there’s a “Next chapter” link at the bottom of each page.):
https://zaklog.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/april-9-2010-arrival/
Huh, my chain of links seems to have been broken at some point. I repaired it just now.
If you read it today, you may have skipped some important chapters starting here: https://zaklog.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/september-4-2015-the-case-for-the-defense/
How does one buy a copy?
At the moment, PayPal me if that works for you. If PayPal is no good, we can figure out another method. One guy is mailing me a check.
If you’d like, I could send you a PayPal request if your email I have is connected to a PayPal account.
I just realized I was making this more complicated than necessary. http://paypal.me/Zaklog Be sure to message with a shipping address.
The book cost $8 to print. It costs $4 to ship. $12 breaks even for me. I’ll let you decide how much over that you think writing the book is worth and add that on.
Please do keep mentioning that!
“The probability that a woman becomes an Alpha Widow increases with every sex partner that she has.”
Amen, sir. Substitute Black for Alpha and it still works. American women have been educated to become awful (or AWFL) shrews. My wife is an ethnic Russian from Kazakhstan. We crack jokes with each other about our “lovers”, Ursula and Hector. Of course, there is no Ursula and no Hector, nor will there ever be. We were raised by decent folks…her a traditional Caucasian-Russian family, and me a conservative Midwestern family. I grew up in the 70’s (a true accomplishment given the morals of the day) and wandered the desert of decent American women until I had a Russian college professor in a class I took on a lark (Introduction to Video Editing). We became friends and he told me that I could easily find a woman of my dreams in his culture. A year of truly intense correspondence later (4000 pages by the Vice-Counsel’s count), he was proven right. That was 21 years ago. Liberals are working hard to kill the nuclear family, you are correct. It’s only taken hold here and Europe. There’s still time to fight.
Congrats on finding Mrs. Right. Morals and culture are crucial, and eventually it will come ’round again.
One thing noted here is that most single girls in their 20s tend to dress well, while their boyish partners dress like Maynard G. Krebs (late 1950s apex slob doofus played by a younger Gilligan). So, my guess is there simply ain’t too many single Alpha males left in that age group, as they get grabbed up by Suzy Sorority while in or shortly after college. Or Law School.
There is also a surfeit of mid-50ish divorcees in every upscale bar/restaurant in our area, and few men of that same age. Same thing – the non-psycho, attractive females (rarities) have a nose for Alphas and stick with one ASAP, leaving the Chardonnay Cat Women holding the bag. The other night there were 6-7 unmarried 50ish, attractive women at the bar and one so-so guy, didn’t know his marital status.
They do. After the Alpha is done playing he matches with an appropriate pair-bond, and is often gone for good.
As I did. Left Blowing Rock for Charleston. In 3 weeks met the woman I needed in 3 weeks online; it was mutual. That was 6 years ago. Both 139 IQ Alphas. She’s corporate, I’m a 35+ year small biz guy. Yin & Yang.
Looking forward to meeting Dirtperson Steve when he gets to Aiken.
Nice.
One of my favorite jokes; How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Ans: That’s not funny! Generally, I find that women are full of it. Mostly humorless harridans, drink too much, think too much, play the princess too much, and spoiled. Being raised in America like they have, one can’t expect much else. Some have what it takes. The rest take what others have. Probably why so many women get treated like garbage by men.
Exactly – they spend their time looking to become aggrieved.
Great opening meme!
Generally though, I work in bookstores, and move those books, and most democommunist screeds, to the comedy section.
No, really.
Lately, I’ve taken to writing recockulous Babylon Bee-worthy notes on Barnes & Nobles “staff review” cards of horrific liberal rubbish, and hitting a different book each visit.
E.g.: “A stupendous collection of the most hysterical rantings of Congessweasels afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, gathered together in a masterful collection of delusional psychosis on parade. You’ll laugh until you throw up!” – faux “staff” review of The January 6th Report
Pro Tip: You can snag a couple of staff review cards, white out the body, and gin up blank versions at FedEx/Kinkos for pennies, and get dollars worth of comedy gold for a couple of seconds’ effort.
Bonus points: Have stickers printed with lines like “Total Bullshit Edition“, “Now With Extra Trump Derangement Syndrome!“, or “Communist Party Approved!” and slap them on the covers of certain select works.
Free speech is where you find it.
Become ungovernable.
I rearranged magazines in the local store to hide the ones with Leftie stories. Maybe copies of Leftie books “accidently” fell behind the display when I put them back.
This all drove the housing market to a two income solution.
Exactly.
I commend to your attention: EmilyWKing of the Tubes.
Cool!
“if a woman spends her 20s in dissolute sex, the chances that she’ll be psychologically able to remain faithful to man number thirty or sixty plummets to zero.”
One could make the same argument regarding men.
Part of the reason many women work is due to the past. Men would dump their wives in their forties for that twenty-three year old and being a housewife with little job training, unless the husband was faithful about child support (and many weren’t), she was screwed.
I’m more traditional (married 45 years to my man), but I got a college degree and worked ’til I had the kids, )and a bit when he needed me to work) to make sure that wouldn’t happen to me.
Because as a child of the 60s, I saw it happen too many times. Both men and women can be fickle and heartless.
BTW – most of us who live in either a city or in the suburbs find in near impossible to survive on one income. Sometimes two working is a necessity. It depends where one lives.
On also applying to men . . . not as much. Men are built for families, and 80%+ of divorces are initiated by women. Not men. Men and women are fundamentally different (not incompatible, but different).
Reason to work . . . another argument against no-fault divorce.
Congrats on the 45 years!!!!!!!!!!!
If more women didn’t work, the prices on houses would fall. The two-earner model increased price pressure for the same product. Eliminate (most) fertile women working, and housing prices would drop significantly.
And, The Mrs. does work, and I encourage it. But our house is empty now. She didn’t work (much) and never worked a kid-incompatible schedule.
Mark J. Perry (emeritus prof at U Michigan-Flint) has published a number of tables showing male-female ACTUAL differences in life outcomes of M vs F. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/2021-update-for-every-100-girls-part-i/
Then if you believe in a normal curve describing IQ, there are many more males in the low-IQ group than females. And if you REALLY believe in normal curves, that means there are more males than females in the higher-IQ groups, since normal curves are symmetric.
Regarding the spread of IQs between the sexes – this has been known for decades. Compared to women, men have a broader SD, and their mean is a couple points higher. Compared to Whites, Blacks have a narrower SD but a much lower mean.
Yup, not the same curve M v. W.