Another Voice for Feminism's Demise

The following speech was left as a comment on an ancient CF post, and true to my custom I will post it here to give it a spotlight because I don't want it to languish in the archives unknown and unappreciated. Although the author wrote this as one continuous scroll, I will take the liberty to break it into paragraphs:

"Yes, I agree that so much of what has gone through history has been orchestrated by those eternally waiting in the wings for an opportunity to profit from mistrust. Of late my thoughts have evolved to more meta analyzing of modern feminism and I now agree that endless analyses, no matter how insightful, are more or less useless. When there is money to be swindled or power to be usurped, someone will always be there to start a 'movement' to get it.

"And, let's not fool ourselves, this is a woman's game as much as it a man's. Does anyone think that Oprah Winfrey, Benezir Bhutto, or Indira Gandhi (no actual relation to the real Gandhi) were/are anything more than power mad people? There quite simply are the Christs, Mohammeds, Ghandhis, and Mother Teresas, and then there are the rest of us. The only way to control radical feminism or radical anything is to have a balance of power--a balance of terror, if you will.

"When you work in the adult world for long enough you notice an interesting thing about power and victimization: When there is a rule preventing an abuse of power those in power simply wait for another opportunity. And for this I give feminists and the race movement great credit, even if they ended up taking it too far. They helped shape rules and laws to protect people that had many spinoff benefits for others--even men. So, in the small picture men must stand up for themselves in courtrooms and leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of self-actualization through education of themselves and their children.

"The other counter-force to the Nazi-like advance of feminism is that our children will sooner or later see what a miserable existence feminist culture has not only created for them, but also solipsistically and arrogantly expected them to unquestioningly follow. Young females attack and harshly criticize men in order to prove that women don't really need men to live up to their potential. I agree that families and men mostly tend to hold women back, but then women have to face up to the fact that they are making choices that they themselves have to be responsible for.

"In a more general sense, no one deals with the fact that if we had chosen to have a fair culture, we'd have it. Part of this choosing not to choose is that women refuse to face their deep insecurity about having power. Women feel so guilty about possibly making mistakes, and then mistakenly (or conveniently) blame men for this insecurity.

"Is this me just being afraid of 'strong' women. No, it is not. That fact is that if women really believed in such radical politics there would be no need to have everyone 'agree'. I personally can't imagine a more boring existence than to be married to a woman who isn't her own person, but being her own person need not come at the sacrifice of my dignity or our children's happy childhoods.

"We have now had more than 20 years of the 'utopia' of women increasingly in power. As a result of radical feminists' rapacious quest for power and their indoctrination of other sectors of society to follow suit, our culture has morally and socially collapsed. Yes, they were helped by the increasingly docile US male population and used by super powerful magnates who look at the world as one economy which they manipulate at will.

"Radical feminism will die out because, at some point, feminists will have no one to blame but themselves and try as they might, the problems that they have created will simply be too big to rationalize, or sweep under the rug. The superpower thugs will sink back into the darkness and wait for the next opportunity, which will no doubt appear shortly."

I agree that radical feminism (ALL feminism!) will "die out", but. . . not without a fight! Expect a ton of hissing, snarling and spitting. And some extremely dirty tricks.

I would need to quibble with the statement that "men and children mostly tend to hold women back." I suppose that is true in an absolute sense, but only in the way that ANY choice or commitment "holds back" a person in some manner, since it is the nature of ANY commitment to entail preclusions.

What the commenter says about "endless analyses" is spot on. I think he means argument by tit-for-tat fisking, which has been a traditional MRA sport for quite a few years. That sort of thing was good for its time, and it served its purpose—which was mainly to sharpen our intellectual claws. But we need to shift into a new phase of operations now (and I've been saying this for quite a while). We must learn to think in terms of sheer power and sheer psychology; we need to focus our attention on the "big picture", and specifically the Big Chessboard. Remember what you are doing in a game of chess: you are not "arguing", you are simply moving mass around according to a set of rules, dictated by the requirements of strategy. That is all.

The good news is, that the activation of the non-feminist sector is under way. There is a grassroots groundswell occurring, and when this gets up to speed it's gonna be a doozy! So the game is to harness this, according to a set of political guidelines. The time is coming when we won't even need to "argue" with the enemy any more. If they are not YET in the mood to negotiate, I can assure you they'll see the light eventually . . .