Sunday, January 09, 2011

The Intersection of Patriarchy Theory
and Female Accountability

What offsets feminism from its host surroundings, is the essential simplicity of feminism itself.

Feminism merely spawns complexity in order to conceal its underlying mindset and camouflage its intentions, but the unifying equation which underlies the complexity may be tersely stated: Feminism = Female Supremacism.

However, this equation must not be nakedly stated, for it would be socially unpalatable and politically indiscreet to appear to advocate female supremacy. What's needed, is deniability. Accordingly, feminism as a sociopolitical organism must undertake a number of covert and distributed operations, in order to move forward circumspectly along the multiple pathways of its intentions.

And so feminism exploits every inherent tendency in the world that might accelerate the world toward a feminist—read female supremacist—state of existence. To put that another way, feminism harnesses those tendencies: horses roaming at liberty in a pasture will not pull your wagon—you must harness them.

In the end, the critical question is not "who exactly is or isn't a feminist?", or even "what exactly is or isn't feminism?", but rather "who or what, directly or indirectly, accelerates the worldly agenda of female supremacism?".

"Feminism" is best identified by the totality of its operations, and by its "fruits". Look for anything that either directly or indirectly strengthens women at the expense of men.

I don't mean to suggest that people or things correctly identifiable as feminists, or as feminism, don't exist. I mean rather that feminism as a cultural phenomenon is greater than the sum of its parts or of its conscious membership, and that the separation between feminism and the rest of the world is like a duotone rather than a boundary.

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As I have stated elsewhere , feminism has fuzzy borders. In the vernacular of postmodernism, feminism is imbricated. There are many people or things which mightn't be purely feminist in themselves, yet they accelerate the feminist agenda all the same, because they transmit or validate feminist memes.

Feminism thrives and grows because it taps the immense reservoir of human venality, cupidity, fear, conformity and other psychic crud—especially the female half of this reservoir! Without access to this reservoir, feminism as a movement and as an ideology would crumble and blow away in the wind.

Now, the feminist sociopolitical organism couldn't keep existing solely on the back of such naive and passive support as I have suggested. In order to get going (and to keep going), it needed (and continues to need) an active cadre of self-identified indoctrinated believers—preferably in seats of influence. The organism cannot live without a brain—and a brain needs administrative capacity, otherwise, what's the point?

And so the indoctrinated operators (identifiable as feminists) find ample work, whatever their vocational standing.

And their work. . . is what? It is, to drip-feed the memes of female supremacism into the collective mind through channels large or small. Briefly, to plant suggestions. For although a suggestion is not the same as a command, there is at least a chance it will be taken up. Or, which is equally good, propagated by word-of-mouth!

And when suggestive indoctrinations trickle down the chain from voice to voice, they shade by degrees into enculturations, and therefore into unconsciousness. For culture, as we know, is propagated in naive oblivion. The original composition of a compost is discernible only in the outermost layers. . .

To recapitulate: feminism as a sociopolitical organism is set in motion, and kept in motion, only because indoctrinated operators work to make this happen. The world has gotten poisonous for men only because these pioneering activists and ideologues have worked to make it that way, blazing a trail which larger numbers have followed and trampled into a broad highway.

If not for the pioneering operators, there would be no operation. Their collective presence has the effect of a magnet, which generates a field greater than its own dimension. The field, in turn, activates anything of a ferrous nature within its range.

This field would neither spring into existence, nor continue to exist, were it not for the existence of the magnet. And while it is literally true that the field is not the magnet, it is beyond dispute that field and magnet are jointly comprehended under the rubric of magnetology—together they compose a unitary phenomenon.

This metaphor of the magnet roughly explains why there is "more to feminism than feminism". The indoctrinated operators are feeding certain organizing ideas into the world—propagating them in all directions. And these organizing ideas are implicative or supportive of the occult dogma of feminism— to wit, female supremacism.

The idea of patriarchy is the skeletal framework that holds the entire slamboozle together because, one way or another, everything hangs upon this idea. Patriarchy "theory" runs all through feminism (albeit more commonly implied or assumed than openly stated), and without such a doctrine feminism wouldn't amount to much.

Female supremacism implies moral license for women, because it implies that women are quintessentially more "right" than men, and therefore entitled not only to the benefit of the doubt in most cases, but to extra perks and pamperings as well. But female supremacism by itself is merely an "attitude", and insofar, has need of an "analysis" to back it up. Patriarchy theory provides that analysis.

Patriarchy theory is the device which draws together all of that otherwise random energy, magnetizes it, galvanizes it, points it in a politicized direction, makes it into a coherent cultural undertow. . .

Propagate this narrative among the masses, or even the camouflaged elements of this narrative, and women everywhere will take the idea on board, finding in it a convenient way to conflate their dysfunctional psychic tendencies with what appears to be a transcending rationale—something "bigger than themselves", a Great Excuse From Heaven that parts the clouds and descends to earth like a sparkling column of sunlight.

The narrative, once internalized, spawns a multitude of spinoffs, sub-narratives, sub-memes and hybrids, all of which make their way from mind to mind through a variety of channels, dispersing randomly, like a fog, through the mental environment. Soon, it becomes difficult to define the source, or to occupy any kind of external standpoint.

The "personal" becomes the "political", and so every encounter with a male person becomes (potentially) a politicized moment, framed in the rhetoric of power imbalance. This instills women with a vague, almost mystical sense that some manner of recompense is owed them simply because they are female—and traces of this feeling can percolate into the smallest transactions of life. (The recompense in question being, of course, a restitution of some abstractly-understood thing which "patriarchy" has originally stolen—or so theory would have it.)

Under such a scenario individual lives, motivations and reflexes are negated and subsumed by an ideological requirement, and women are converted into moral robots in the service of a zero-sum game.

Yes, the proclivity of feminism is to bestow moral robot-hood on women. And the razor-thin line which divides moral robot-hood from moral agency, is the line that divides the non-feminist sector from the entire feminist zone of influence. That bright line, precisely, is the boundary.

And the day that feminism commences to preaching that bright line, robustly and full-bloodedly, is the day that the femplex goes into remission. But feminist preachers instead smear this bright line all over the landscape and make it a fuzzy duotone, because the dawning of that day is the last thing they want to see.

For feminism, you understand, has amazingly little to say about ethical behavior toward men. Hear the feminist silence roar! Their sparse words upon that subject are perfunctory and pro forma—rhetorical trinkets at best. In theory, feminism makes moral robots of all women, for it would have women believe that immoral behavior toward men is precluded from the realm of possibility. Were it otherwise women would, in theory, possess moral agency. And with moral agency would come responsibility—to wit, the primordial possibility of transgression.

But the sequestered intention of feminism (read female supremacism) is to endow women with power minus responsibility. For if women were to assume the burden of ethical behavior toward men, they would ipso-facto relinquish feminist power over men, by which I mean the power to deal with men arbitrarily—and female supremacism, in the form of perpetual revolution, could advance no further.

I, the present writer, am pro-choice, meaning that I believe in choice for women: ethical choice. I further believe, as a general thing, that choices have consequences, and that women should not be shielded from the consequentiality of their choices. For to experience the consequentiality of one's choices is an element of freedom not to be neglected and, which is more, indispensable to spiritual evolution. And I believe that women should undergo as much freedom as men would undergo, for I wish to see an efflorescence of their spiritual evolution. Can't we all benefit from such blossomings?

16 Comments:

Blogger ScareCrow said...

Best post from you ever. You just out-did yourself.

7:43 PM  
Blogger Lady Catherine said...

Interesting way of closing your article. :-)

Pro-choice as in pro-ethical choice. I love it! As soon as I seen pro-choice(it was the first phrase I saw!) I thought this was a post about abortion(I don't really want the headache). I got a post to finish up for my blog but I enjoyed this post. Gives me some things to think about.

7:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Scarecrow beat me to it. Just when I think you've reached your pinnacle you scale further heights.

P.S. "Slamboozle". I like that!

7:36 AM  
Blogger Lady Catherine said...

So I ended up finishing my post. It's critiquing Feminist open to Criticism's criticism about the MRM. A couple parts of her post was so hilariously funny. I poke fun at them.

1:31 PM  
Blogger Fidelbogen said...

@LC:

FOTC! I remember her!

But I haven't been back to her blog for ages! -- I sorta halfway expected she'd have packed it in by now. Have I been missing anything really juicy??

So anyways, I'll take a look at your latest when I get back from where I gotta be going now. Fat snowflakes are falling at the moment; fun to walk in!

1:58 PM  
Blogger Adam Kostakis said...

@ Lady Catherine's latest post on FOTC:

Hilarious that she thinks MRAs want to preserve marriage. Has she ever read an MRA blog? I cannot think of a group of people more opposed to marriage than MRAs - not even feminists these days.

It's just the usual shaming tactics: bitter, angry, they want traditional sex roles, et cetera. Not sure how she worked that last one out, especially since she admits that at least one MRA supports equal casualties in war. Sending women off to war is in keeping with traditional sex roles, is it?

Speaking of which: the conflation of dying in childbirth with dying in war is absurd. Men physically cannot give birth, ergo cannot die in childbirth. Women physically can don army uniforms, duck down in trenches and fire guns. But I suppose when it comes to this particular hardship, asserting traditional sex roles is proper and dandy.

"Off you go to get your faces blown off, men. Us women are far too ladylike for that sort of thing!"

2:49 PM  
Blogger Lady Catherine said...

@Fidelbogen
"Have I been missing anything really juicy??"
An interesting comparison between the MRM and the feminist movement and her critique(she does raise a couple of fair points)

3:36 PM  
Anonymous AlekNovy said...

I almost drooled reading this one. How the heck do you manage to write so well man? I mean you take super-complex issues and manage to make them sound so CLEAR.

12:23 AM  
Blogger Dr. Deezee said...

Discussion about feminism having fuzzy borders reminds me of my own analogy of comparing feminism to an insurgency. The long of it is in this article for The Spearhead, the short of it is below.

At bottom, an insurgency is a conflict of ideologies. It tends to be split up in a 10-80-10 split - that is to say, 10% in active support of either side of the conflict (feminists and MRAs, in this context) with 80% of people being rather undecided and in the middle. The Counterinsurgency Field Manual states “…a passive populace may be all that is necessary for a well-supported insurgency to seize political power," and feminism has been successful because it instituted a system whereby it thrives on a passive populace.

8:06 AM  
Blogger Fidelbogen said...

"I almost drooled reading this one. How the heck do you manage to write so well man? I mean you take super-complex issues and manage to make them sound so CLEAR."

Well. . I have thought about these matters for years, and distilled my thoughts, and distilled the distillations.

I feed my mind on things other than popular culture. That always helps.

Finally, I put a lot of effort into the business of wordsmithing. Every sentence is crafted.

I'm still learning, of course. Here's something good that I discovered fairly recently: throw out most of the adjectives in your writing. Most of time you don't need them, and your prose will be the stronger for it.

I think adjectives work better in spoken language than written.

10:49 AM  
Blogger Fidelbogen said...

@DrDeezee:

Yes. . here is further evidence that different minds working on the same problem from different starting points will often converge on the same understanding -- even if framed a bit differently.

I remember reading your "Insurgency" essay some time ago, and recall thinking that it sounded about right. Underlying ideas which make the world go 'round, are timeless. If we could get Machiavelli in here, I am sure he would chime in to a very similar effect! ;)

So, feminism and non-feminism are both "insurgencies". I would say that feminism has the upper hand at the moment due to its "long march through the institutions" with the resulting hold upon the mass mind. But the trouble is, that feminist innovation generates so much inherent human misery in the long run, that 'human nature' will eventually rise up against it in nearly every quarter, at which point the institutional power base itself will collapse from internal rot, creating a power vacuum which the NF insurgency may smartly rush in to fill.

Of course, I am simplifying this picture for the sake of explanation...

12:08 PM  
Blogger Dr. Deezee said...

Well, when it comes to insurgencies, there are the insurgents and then there are the pro government forces. There was a point in time, I'd say, where feminism truly was an insurgency in the sense that it was not the status quo, but these days it's almost like MRAs are the insurgents against the feminist status quo. (This is just splitting hairs, though, and doesn't really change the fundamentals of how the conflict is organized.)

Perhaps one day I should get back to that analogy and dust off my field manual. Plenty of good tricks and tactics for handling insurgencies in there.

7:04 AM  
Anonymous AlekNovy said...

@Fidelbogen

Thanks, useful advice. One more question on the same. Do you do a lot of editing? Several passes, just one... None at all?

10:26 AM  
Blogger Fidelbogen said...

"Do you do a lot of editing? Several passes, just one... None at all?"

I am a compulsive "edit-as-you-go" writer. Probably not the best habit, but. . oh well.

Of course, when I am done I go back and edit some more.

And six months later, I will find more bits that I missed in the beginning.

12:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am glad in this day and age I am allowed to work, vote and have a voice and say no to abuse. I can speak my thoughts and not be locked away in a mental institution or burnt at the stake. So, I don't know what dark ages you are coming from to say as a female I am a supremist.

5:12 AM  
Blogger Fidelbogen said...

@Anon5:12

Your remarks are irrelevant to the subject, and meant to derail it. You are being willfully obtuse, pretending not to understand what is being talked about.

5:43 AM  

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